Rosmarie Waldrop – författare

In her new volume of prose poem “dialogues,” Reluctant Gravities, Rosmarie Waldrop once again pushes the boundaries and definitions of poetry, prose, gender, relationship, even language itself. Intended as a sequel to The Reproduction of Profiles and Lawn of Excluded Middle, Reluctant Gravities gives the rhetorical “you” addressed in those earlier volumes a voice and response. Some of Waldrop’s concerns are formal. As the author herself says, she “cultivates cuts, discontinuity, leaps, shifts of reference” in an attempt to compensate for the lack of margin, where verse would turn toward the white of the page, toward what is not. Instead, her “gap gardening” tries to place the margin, the emptiness inside the text. Yet the overriding point of the dialogues is determinedly human as the two voices with wit and philosophical playfulness debate aspects of “Aging,” “Depression,” “Desire,” and even ’’The Millennium.”

The latest book of prose poems by one of America's premier philosophical poets. For the title of her newest collection of prose poems, Rosmarie Waldrop adopts a term"blindsight" used by the neuroscientist Antonio R. Damasio to describe a condition in which a person actually sees more than he or she is consciously aware. "This is one reason," explains Waldrop, "for using collage: joining my fragments to other people's fragments in a dialogue, a net relation that might catch a bit more of the 'world.'" The collectionthe author's fourth with New Directionsis divided into four thematic sections. The first, "HÜlderlin Hybrids," resonates against the German poet's twisted syntax, while using rhythmic punctuation in counterpoint to sense. "'As Were,'" says Waldrop, "began with looking at the secondary occupations of artistsfor example, Mallarme teaching English, Montaigne serving as mayor of Bordeauxbut this soon gave way to playing more generally with particular aspects of historical figures." The title section, "Blindsight," is most consistent in its use of collage, juxtaposing words and images to jolting, epiphanic effect. "Cornell Boxes," in contrast, has a formal unity, inspired by the constructions of Joseph Cornell, each prose poem "box" composed in a structure of fours: four paragraphs of four sentences each, with four footnotes.

Rosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening “spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems, to focusing on the sentence and its boundaries, my increasing reliance on collage and source texts as a way of engaging with other voices, of being in dialogue.”Gap Gardening also traces Waldrop’s growing sense of writing as an exploration of what happens in between. Between words, sentences, people, cultures. Between fragment and flow, thinking and feeling, mind and body.  For the first time, we have a complete and clear view of the work of a great and inquiring, brave and indispensable poet.

Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic. As an immigrant to the United States from Germany, Rosmarie Waldrop has wrestled with the problems of language posed by the discrepancies between her native and adopted tongues, and the problems of translating from one to the other. Those discrepancies and disjunctions, instead of posing problems to be overcome, have become for Waldrop a generative force and the very foundation of her interests as a critic and poet. In this comprehensive collection of her essays, Waldrop addresses considerations central to her life's work: typical genres and ways of countering the conventions of genre; how concrete poets have made syntax spatial rather than grammatical; and the move away from metaphor in poetry toward contiguity and metonymy. Three essays on translation struggle with the sources and targets of translation, or the degree of strangeness or foreignness a translator should allow into any English translation. Finally, other essays examine the two-way traffic between reading and writing, and Waldrop's notion of reading as experience.

Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.

As an immigrant to the United States from Germany, Rosmarie Waldrop has wrestled with the problems of language posed by the discrepancies between her native and adopted tongues, and the problems of translating from one to the other. Those discrepancies and disjunctions, instead of posing problems to be overcome, have become for Waldrop a generative force and the very foundation of her interests as a critic and poet. In this comprehensive collection of her essays, Waldrop addresses considerations central to her life’s work: typical genres and ways of countering the conventions of genre; how concrete poets have made syntax spatial rather than grammatical; and the move away from metaphor in poetry toward contiguity and metonymy. Three essays on translation struggle with the sources and targets of translation, of the degree of strangeness or foreignness a translator should allow into any English translation. Finally, other essays examine the two-way traffic between reading and writing, and Waldrop’s notion of reading as experience.

In this collection, Waldrop has dedicated many poems to other writers whom she esteems, and in each poem, echoes subtly that writer's forms, tones, and textures. From this synchronism, Waldrop evolves her own unique mediums of address that suggests a slipperiness in human emotion and in human speech.

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¿Qué influencia ha ejercido en la vida de sus tres hijas que Frederika tuviera un amante desde los comienzos de su matrimonio con el –supuesto– padre de las chicas? Lucy, la menor de las hermanas, considera que si puede haber una leyenda que asegure que Kitzingen –la ciudad alemana donde nació antes de emigrar a Estados Unidos– se erigió en el lugar donde cayó el pañuelo que lanzara desde su castillo la hija de Pipino el Breve (siglo VIII), entonces, nada es concluyente: muchos de los sucesos que adquieren trascendencia en la vida de los individuos y de los pueblos son, en realidad, bastante caprichosos. Pero, puesto que no todas las hermanas comparten su opinión, Lucy emprende, escribiéndose cartas con una de ellas, la tarea de reconstruir y fijar el relato de una historia familiar cuajada de incógnitas y versiones diferentes de los mismos hechos. Frederika, cantante frustrada y femme fatale, se casa, en 1926, con Josef, profesor dado a las elucubraciones metafísicas y veterano de la Gran Guerra. Sin embargo, la carnal Frederika inicia una aventura con Franz, judío desaparecido en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, lo que pone la identidad del padre de las gemelas, Andrea y Doria, en entredicho.Waldrop, temerosa de la excesiva simplificación que requiere construir una trama pulcra y geométrica, elige una forma de contar muy especial, alejada de cualquier presupuesto estético convencional, una estrategia formal que proclama la naturaleza provisoria de cualquier relato. Un tira y afloja entre el flujo y la fragmentación, aderezado con toques de humor negro e imágenes musicales, en el que la autora nos habla con inteligencia del deseo, de la infidelidad, de la familia como un choque de tensiones opuestas que permanecen unidas –igual que la carga de un edificio– y de las repercusiones de la transgresión a lo largo de las generaciones.

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”Så långt tillbaka vi kan spåra människan har hon överlämnat sånger och verk till kommande generationer. Även om detta kollektiva minne förändras, så kan poesin – ‘Denna gamla krigskorrespondent’ som Luque kallar den – med historiens hjälp ge nuet ett djupare sammanhang.” Ur numrets ledare Poesi av Adrienne Rich, Aurora Luque, Lizette Romero Niknami, Rosmarie Waldrop, Jesper Svenbro, Signe Gjessing och Linnéa Enström. Essäer av Elisabeth Friis, Balsam Karam, Anna Smedberg Bondesson och Sinziana Ravini. Recensioner: Maria Küchen om Athena Farrokhzad, Erik Bergqvist om Camilla Hammarström, Arne Melberg om Göran Sonnevi, Theodor Hildeman Tognér om Axel Winqvist och Sarra Anaya om Sorin Masifi.