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.

"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

• 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

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.

"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

• 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