Transcendental Studies: A Trilogyvolume 27 by Waldrop, Keith

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy Volume 27 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520258785)

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Transcendental Studies: A Trilogyvolume 27 by Waldrop, Keith

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy Volume 27

$24.95
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogyvolume 27 by Waldrop, Keith

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy Volume 27

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Keith Waldrop
ISBN-10: 0520258789
ISBN-13: 9780520258785
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2009
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.90w x 0.70d
Award: National Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/16/2009 pg. 43
By Keith Waldrop
By Keith Waldrop
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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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