Keith Waldrop

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Keith Waldrop at Brown University , Rhode Island (April 2010).

Bernard Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932 in Emporia , Kansas ) is an American poet, writer, translator and university professor. In addition to his own prose and poetry, he has translated numerous works by Claude Royet-Journoud , Anne-Marie Albiach , Edmond Jabès , Charles Baudelaire and others.

Life

In 1954 he met his future wife Rosmarie Sebald at a concert by the local youth orchestra in Kitzingen , where he was stationed as a soldier . He and Rosmarie became friends and over the next few months translated German poetry into English together . He went back to the USA and began studying. From 1956 to 1957 he studied on the basis of the GI Bill at the French University of Aix-Marseille , where Rosmarie also moved. In late 1957 he returned to the University of Michigan . Rosmarie was able to pay for her trip to the United States with the prize money of the Major Hopwood Prize won in 1958 . The couple married, and Rosmarie also began studying at the University of Michigan.

Waldrop received his Ph.D. 1964 in comparative literature at the University of Michigan . Four years later he began teaching at Brown University in Rhode Island .

As early as 1961, the Waldrops had acquired a used printing press and started publishing Burning Deck Magazine . It was the beginning of Burning Deck , which would become one of the most influential small publishers of innovative poetry in the United States.

Awards

Works

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)
  • 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)
  • together with Rosmarie Waldrop: The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart by Jacques Roubaud (Dalkey Archive, 2006)
  • Theory of Prepositions by Claude Royet-Journoud (Fence, 2006)
  • with Patricia Erbelding : L'état des métamorphoses by Tita Reut (Art inprogress, 2005)
  • with Forrest Gander : Another Kind of Tenderness by Xue Di (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)

Settings

Web links

Commons : Keith Waldrop  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keith Waldrop . Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Keith Waldrop . Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ Chad W. Post: BTBA 2014: Poetry and Fiction Winners . Three percent. April 28, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Waldrop, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldrop, Bernard Keith (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet, writer, translator, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Emporia , Kansas