Keith Waldrop

Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) is an American poet and academic. He authored numerous books of poetry and prose and 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). He won the National Book Award in Poetry for his 2009 collection Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.

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• Career
• Awards and honors
• Poetry
• Prose
• Visual Art
• Translations
• References

Career

Waldrop received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan in 1964 and four years later began teaching at Brown University (1968).

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

Awards and honors

Chevalier des arts et des lettres by the French government.

2009 National Book Award for Poetry for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.

2014 Best Translated Book Award, Poetry, one of two runners-up for Four Elemental Bodies by Claude Royet-Journoud, translated from the French.

Poetry

A Windmill Near Calvary (University of Michigan Press, 1968)

The Garden of Effort (Burning Deck, 1975)

Shipwreck In Haven (Awede, 1989)

The Opposite of Letting the Mind Wander (Lost Roads, 1990)

The Locality Principle (Avec, 1995)

Analogies of Escape (Burning Deck, 1997)

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)

Semiramis 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 Publishing, 2005)

Several Gravities (Siglio, 2009)

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press, 2009) —winner of the National Book Award

The Space of Half an Hour (Burning Deck, 1983)

The Not Forever [Inventions] (Omnidawn, 2013)

Selected Poems (Omnidawn, 2016)

Prose

Hegel's Family (Station Hill, 1989)

Light While There is Light (Sun & Moon, 1993)

Visual Art

Several Gravities (Siglio Press, 2009)

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)

L’état des métamorphoses by Tita Reut with Patricia Erbelding (Art inprogress, 2005)

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)