Keith Waldrop

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Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (2006).

With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and teaches at Brown University. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres.

Contents 1 Selected Works 1.1 Poetry 1.2 Prose 1.3 Translations 2 External links

[edit] Selected Works

[edit] Poetry

• Shipwreck In Haven (Awede, 1989)
• The Opposite of Letting the Mind Wander (Lost Roads, 1990)
• The Locality Principle (Avec, 1995)
• The Silhouette of the Bridge (Memory Stand-Ins) (Avec, 1997)
• Stone Angels (Instress, 1997)
• Well Well Reality (Collaborations with Rosmarie Waldrop) (The Post-Apollo Press, 1998)
• Haunt (Instance, 2000)
• Seriamis If I Remember (Avec, 2001)
• The House Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press, 2003)
• The Real Subject: queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems (Omnidawn, 2005)

[edit] Prose

• Hegel's Family (Station Hill, 1989)
• Light While There is Light (Sun & Moon, 1993)

[edit] Translations

• The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (Wesleyan, 2006)
• Figured Image by Anne-Marie Albiach (The Post-Apollo Press, 2006)
• The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart by Jacques Roubaud (tr. with Rosmarie Waldrop) (Dalkey Archive, 2006)
• Theory of Prepositions by Claude Royet-Journoud (Fence, 2006)
• Another Kind of Tenderness by Xue Di with Forrest Gander (Litmus, 2004)
• Close Quote by Marie Borel (Burning Deck, 2003)
• Mental Ground by Esther Tellermann (Burning Deck, 2002)
• The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabes (Station Hill Press, 1988)

[edit] External links

• Exhibit at the Academy of American Poets includes links to some poems by Keith Waldrop including "Invitation to the Voyage", "Light Travels", "Posthumous Remorse Whir"
• Keith Waldrop Page at the Electronic Poetry Center extensive links to bibliography, biography, essays, reviews, etc..