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 line[...]
Not exactly a novel and not really a poem, though it contains some verses and is not without characters, this work describes a man late in life who has been around and who's thought about what he has seen and heard. He is a unique geezer, whose trains of thought seem often on tracks without station [...]
As the title suggests, these poems take not only mortality, but also the impossibility of truly assessing mortality, as their endlessly inexplicable subject. Keith Waldrop's language is by turns wry, brazen, brilliant, humorous, sorrowful, and entirely unforgettable as he focuses upon all that canno[...]
This is the first title from La Presse, a new imprint of Fence Books publishing contemporary experimental French poetry in English translation. Publishing two new titles a year, the imprint will explore the rich variety of experimentation coming out of small French presses such as P.O.L. and Bleu du[...]