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Editorial Coverage of Several Gravities
AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW: Mark Beggs
To open Keith Waldrop's Several Gravities is to walk into a tiny museum, literally. Thanks to Siglio Press's consummate attention to detail, Waldrop's poems and collages are displayed graciously and spaciously. Imagine tiny works of art spread throughout a big beautiful room…. Musicians like Frank Zappa and Tom Waits have succeeded despite their unclassifiable styles in the realm of music, and one can only hope that a hybrid artist like Waldrop might hold similar appeal for new audiences. (March/April 2010)
THE LITERARY REVIEW: Matthew Gagnon
It is rare that a book is bound with such mystery and illumination, whose structure—a fusion of mixed Editorial collages and assemblages and poem fragments—offers an alternative route to understanding Waldrop’s world. And even more rare is that a book beautifully constructs a counterpoint between two mediums, forcing them to speak in a new space . . . There is an abounding wildness defying attempts to find unity in the merging of textural and textual ingredients corresponding to Waldrop’s visual work. It is a welcome challenge.
WEST BRANCH: G.C. Waldrep
In the wake of Keith Waldrop's National Book Award—for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy—it would be too easy to forget his other book of 2009, the ecstatic, gloriously produced volume of collages released in tandem by Los Angeles's Siglio Press . . . This gorgeous book is a must for anyone who values the tradition of innovative lyric writing in English, as well as anyone for whom collage (in the tradition of Schwitters or Ernst) holds some lingering, intrinsic promise of the ineffable. (Spring/Summer 2010)
POETS & WRITERS: Kevin Larimer
…in April, Siglio Press, the indie in Los Angeles that last year published Joe Brainard's The Nancy Book, released the equally beautiful and exquisitely designed Several Gravities, a collection of Waldrop's collages. In an essay in that book, the volume's editor, Robert Seydel, describes the seventy-year-old artist-poet-publisher-translator as "that rare figure—a poet's poet, inherently graceful in his utterance, in both poetry and prose, and somewhat hermetic, sage-like, very beautiful in his hesitations and quiet delivery of both self and poem." The kind of writer, in other words, who gets swept along in a current of popular interest and whose work, thankfully, fulfills the promise. (May/June 2009)
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