Waldrop, Keith.

Transcendental Studies. A Trilogy.

Berkeley / Los Angeles / London, University of California Press, 2009. 8°. 201 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition. Signed by Keith Waldrop on the titlepage. Signed books by Keith Waldrop are exceedingly rare. (New California Poetry)

Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) 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 is professor emeritus at Brown University. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres.
Waldrop won the 2009 National Book Award for Poetry for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy. (Wikipedia)

This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences – “Shipwreck in Haven,” “Falling in Love through a Description,” and “The Plummet of Vitruvius” – in a virtuosic poetic triptych. In these quasi-abstract, experimental lines, collaged words torn from their contexts take on new meanings. Waldrop, a longtime admirer of such artists as the French poet Raymond Queneau and the American painter Robert Motherwell, imposes a tonal override on purloined materials, yet the originals continue to show through. These powerful poems, at once metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop’s romantic tendencies with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and revealing him as a transcendentalist for the new millennium.

• Keywords: Poetry – Rare · Signed
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780520258785
• Inventory Number: 26995AB

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