Rosmarie Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author/editor of 16 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism, including Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes.

This is a marvelous collection of essays and short pieces by one of our very finest poets writing today. Among the poet-critics of her generation, Waldrop is distinguished by the sheer range and depth of her knowledge and experience as a translator of French and German poetries. Dissonance is thus a genuine opening of the field, a move toward an international poetics. - Marjorie Perloff, author of Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

Rosmarie Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author/editor of 16 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism, including Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes.

This is a marvelous collection of essays and short pieces by one of our very finest poets writing today. Among the poet-critics of her generation, Waldrop is distinguished by the sheer range and depth of her knowledge and experience as a translator of French and German poetries. Dissonance is thus a genuine opening of the field, a move toward an international poetics. - Marjorie Perloff, author of Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

Rosmarie Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author/editor of 16 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism, including Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes.

This is a marvelous collection of essays and short pieces by one of our very finest poets writing today. Among the poet-critics of her generation, Waldrop is distinguished by the sheer range and depth of her knowledge and experience as a translator of French and German poetries. Dissonance is thus a genuine opening of the field, a move toward an international poetics. - Marjorie Perloff, author of Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy