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$39.50 CASEBOUND 112 PAGES, ILLUSTRATED ISBN 978-0-9799562-1-8
For nearly four decades, Keith Waldrop has been creating a lyrical body of visual art that mirrors his extraordinary oeuvre of poetry, fiction, and translation. Like his collage poems, Waldrop's visual works are enveloped in quiet tensions and ghosted impressions. They construct densities of atmosphere and architecture, drift and dream. Rich in textual and visual play, romantic and contradictory in their shapings, his collages use traces of memory to gesture toward the absent and the invisible.
Edited and with an essay by Robert Seydel, Several Gravities features a substantial selection of these radiant collages in a full color, hardcover edition, and includes a previously unpublished serial poem as well as an essay by Waldrop that enunciates the relationship between this author's distinctive visual and poetic practices.
This juxtaposition of prose commentary, verse and collage is a fascinating and illuminating work in itself. Several Gravities also serves as a bright window onto the landscape of Keith Waldrop's poetics and creative life. It is suffused with his ineffable mix of gentle irony, humor and incisiveness, a tonal palette I have much admired across the decades of his deeply imaginative engagement with poetry, prose, drama and the visual arts.
-- Michael Palmer
KEITH WALDROP (b. 1932, Emporia, Kansas) is the author of over two dozen works of poetry and prose, an eminent translator, and with wife Rosmarie Waldrop, founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press. For his lifetime contribution to French literature, Waldrop received the rank of Chevalier des arts et des lettres from the French government. He is also a National Book Award nominee and the recipient of the Americas Award for Poetry, among his many other honors. Other forthcoming books include a trilogy of collage poems, Transcendental Studies (UC Press, 2009), and his translation of Baudelaire's Paris Spleen (Wesleyan, 2009). Publishers Weekly recently wrote that Waldrop is "one of the most important writers, translators, and publishers of avant-garde literature in our time." He is currently the Brooke Russell Astor Professor of the Humanities at Brown University.
With candles burning in devotional space and stairs leading to inked occult openings, Several Gravities brilliantly documents the "potential random" so generative to Keith Waldrop's wizardry as visual artist, prose stylist, and master poet. Whatever he compels - or compels him - is living, shining, astonishing.
--Peter Gizzi
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Limited Edition
A signed, numbered limited edition of Several Gravities will include
an original collage from Waldrop's "Metro Tickets" series. Edition of 30 (25 for sale and 5 hors commerce). Contact Siglio for more information and to reserve in advance.
More on Keith Waldrop
Watch this space! Coming Soon:
Peter Gizzi interviews Keith Waldrop
Excerpt from Imagination's Artifacts:
On the Art of Keith Waldrop by Robert Seydel
