Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop

Keith Waldrop's recent poetry books are Transcendental Studies (Univ. of California Press, National Book Award 2009), The Real Subject (Omnidawn) and the trilogy: The Locality Principle, The Silhouette of the Bridge, and Semiramis If I Remember (Avec Books). Siglio Press has published a book of collages, Several Gravities. He has translated Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: little poems in prose (Wesleyan Univ. Press) as well as books by contemporary French poets Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Paol Keineg, Dominique Fourcade, Pascal Quignard, and Jean Grosjean.

Rosmarie Waldrop's new book, Driven to Abstraction, is just out from New Directions (2010). Recent books are Curves to the Apple, Blindsight (both New Directions), and Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn). Her collected essays, Dissonance (if you are interested) was published by University of Alabama Press. She has translated 14 volumes of Edmond Jabès's work (her memoir, Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès, is out from Wesleyan UP) as well as volumes by Emmanuel Hocquard, Jacques Roubaud, and, from the German, Friederike Mayröcker, Elke Erb, Oskar Pastior, Gerhard Rühm, Ulf Stolterfoht.

Together, Keith and Rosmarie have published Well Well Reality (collected collaborations, Post-Apollo Press), Ceci n'est pas Keith Ceci n'est pas Rosmarie (autobiographies, Burning Deck), and translated Jacques Roubaud's poems on the streets of Paris: The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart (Dalkey Archive). They co-edit the small press, Burning Deck Press.

 

 

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