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Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy Volume 27
Winner:National Book Award -Poetry (2009)
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Mar 2nd, 2009
- Pages: 216
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.90in - 0.70in - 0.65lb
- EAN: 9780520258785
- Categories: • American - General• General• Americas (North Central South West Indies)
About the Author
Keith Waldrop, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities at Brown University, has published more than a dozen works each of original poetry and translations. His first book, A Windmill Near Calvary, was shortlisted for the 1968 National Book Award. Recent books include The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems, The House Seen from Nowhere, and a translation of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.
Praise for this book
"Waldrop has long been a major force in American avant-garde poetics, and this substantial new volume is big news indeed. . . . Entrancing." Starred Review-- "Publishers Weekly" (3/16/2009 12:00:00 AM)
"These poems demand a certain reverence."-- "Bookforum" (12/16/2009 12:00:00 AM)
"Impressive."-- "Poets & Writers Magazine" (7/14/2010 12:00:00 AM)
"A complex, absorbing work."-- "Providence Sunday Journal" (4/12/2009 12:00:00 AM)