Rosmarie Waldrop

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Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935 in Kitzingen , maiden name Sebald ) is a German-American poet , translator and publisher .

Life

Waldrop was born in Kitzingen am Main. There her father Joseph Sebald gave physical education at the school. Towards the end of World War II , she joined a traveling theater, but returned to school in 1946. There she learned to play the piano and flute , among other things , and played in a youth orchestra. Christmas 1954 the youth orchestra gave a concert for American soldiers in Kitzingen. Keith Waldrop , who had listened to the concert, then invited members of the orchestra to listen to his record collection. He and Rosmarie became friends and over the next few months translated German poetry into English together .

In 1954 she began studying literature , art history and musicology at the University of Würzburg . In the following year 1955 she moved to the University of Freiburg , where she discovered the works of Robert Musil and took part in protests against a lecture by the philosopher Martin Heidegger . She later moved to the University of Aix-Marseille , where Keith Waldrop studied from 1956 to 57 on the basis of the GI bill . In late 1957 he returned to the University of Michigan . In 1958 he won the Major Hopwood Prize and sent most of the prize money to Rosmarie so that she could pay for her trip to the United States.

The couple married, and Rosmarie also began studying at the University of Michigan. 1966 doctorate them there for Ph.D. She became active in literary, musical and artistic circles around the university and beyond in the Ann Arbor region. She started translating poetry from France and Germany. 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.

Rosmarie Waldrop began publishing her own poetry in English in the late 1960s. She has published over three dozen books (poetry, prose, translations).

In the early 1970s she spent a year in Paris , where she came into contact with the French avant garde , including Claude Royet-Journoud , Anne-Marie Albiach and Edmond Jabès . These authors influenced her own work, and at the same time she became one of the main translators of her works into English published by Burning Deck .

Awards

Fonts

poetry

  • The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger , NY: Random House
  • The Road Is Everywhere or Stop This Body , Columbia, MO: Open Places
  • When They Have Senses , Providence: Burning Deck
  • Nothing Has Changed , Windsor, VT: Awede Press
  • Differences for Four Hands , Philadelphia: Singing Horse; repr. Providence: Paradigm Press, 1999
  • Streets Enough to Welcome Snow , Barrytown, NY: Station Hill
  • The Reproduction of Profiles , NY: New Directions
  • Shorter American Memory , Providence: Paradigm Press
  • Peculiar Motions, Berkeley , CA: Kelsey Street Press
  • Lawn of Excluded Middle , NY: Tender Buttons
  • A Key Into the Language of America , NY: New Directions
  • Another Language: Selected Poems , Jersey City: Talisman House
  • Split Infinites , Philadelphia: Singing Horse Press
  • Reluctant Gravities , NY: New Directions
  • with Keith Waldrop: Well Well Reality , Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press
  • Love, Like Pronouns , Omnidawn Publishing
  • Blindsight , New York: New Directions
  • Splitting Image , Zasterle
  • Curves to the Apple , New Directions
  • Driven to Abstraction , New Directions

Fiction

  • The Hanky ​​of Pippin's Daughter, Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1986
  • A Form / of Taking / It All, Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1990

Essays and reviews

  • Against Language? , The Hague: Mouton / Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1971
  • The Ground Is the Only Figure: Notebook Spring 1996 , Providence: The Impercipient Lecture Series, Vol. 1, No. 3 (April 1997)
  • Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès , Wesleyan University Press, 2002
  • Dissonance (if you are interested) , University Alabama Press, 2005

Translations

  • The Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès, 7 vols. bound as 4, Wesleyan UP, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1984
  • From a Reader's Notebook, by Alain Veinstein, Annex Press, Ithaca New York, 1983
  • Paul Celan: Collected Prose , by Paul Celan , Manchester & NY: Carcanet & Sheep Meadow, 1986
  • The Book of Dialogue by Edmond Jabès, Wesleyan UP, 1987
  • Late Additions: Poems by Emmanuel Hocquard (with Connell McGrath), Peterborough, Cambs .: Spectacular Diseases, 1988
  • The Book of Shares by Edmond Jabès, Chicago UP, 1989
  • Some Thing Black by Jacques Roubaud , Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archives, 1990
  • The Book of Resemblances by Edmond Jabès, 3 vols., Wesleyan UP, 1990, 91, 92
  • From the Book to the Book by Edmond Jabès, Wesleyan UP, 1991
  • The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabès, Chicago UP, 1993
  • A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book by Edmond Jabès, Wesleyan UP, 1993
  • Sanatorium by Friederike Mayröcker , Providence: Burning Deck, 1994
  • The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis by Jacques Roubaud, Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1995
  • Mountains in Berlin: Selected Poems by Elke Erb , Providence: Burning Deck, 1995
  • The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion by Edmond Jabès, Stanford UP, 1996
  • With Each Clouded Peak by Friederike Mayröcker (with Harriett Watts), Los Angeles, CA: Sun & Moon Press, 1998
  • A Test of Solitude by Emmanuel Hocquard, Providence: Burning Deck, 2000
  • with Harry Mathews and Christopher Middleton : Many Glove Compartments by Oskar Pastior , Providence: Burning Deck, 2001
  • Desire for a Beginning Dread of One Single End by Edmond Jabès (Images & Design by Ed Epping), New York, New York: Granary Books, 2001
  • The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart by Jacques Roubaud, Dalkey Archive Press; Translation edition, 2006. ISBN 1-56478-383-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steve Evans, " Rosmarie Waldrop ", Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 169 (1996).
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Chad W. Post: 2013 Best Translated Book Award: The Poetry Finalists . In: Three Percent . Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/rw-nc.htm
  5. ↑ brings together three volumes: The Reproduction of Profiles , Lawn of Excluded Middle , and Reluctant Gravities
personal data
SURNAME Waldrop, Rosmarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sebald, Rosmarie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American poet, translator and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitzingen