Transcendental Studies

A Trilogy

AvKeith Waldrop

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Del 27 i serien New California Poetry

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-03-02
Mått:152 x 203 x 18 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New California Poetry
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520258785
Utmärkelser:Winner of National Book Awards (Poetry) 2009

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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.

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"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 "These poems demand a certain reverence." Bookforum "A complex, absorbing work." Providence Sunday Journal "Impressive." Poets & Writers Magazine

Innehållsförteckning

I: Shipwreck in Haven II: Falling in Love through a Description III: The Plummet of Vitruvius The Unreliable Narrator Carriage: a transition Variations on a Paraphrase Plummet (II) Epilogue: Stone Angels