Keith Waldrop is a quiet major poet, a major poet of quiet. His accomplishment is difficult to describe because his work refuses, in Bartelby-like fashion, the twin traps of impassivity and affectation: "On my one hand, / stasis -- on the / other, striving for effect." In one of his very few interviews, Waldrop says: "I think the worst fault a poem can have is striving for effect." Waldrop never strives; instead, he haunts--his presence is all the more powerful for barely being there, like a ghost you discover in a familiar photograph.
Selected Poems of Keith Waldrop
Keith Waldrop
$19.95
- SKU:
- 9781632430205
- UPC:
- 9781632430205
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- Published by:
- Omnidawn
- Pub date:
- 04/05/2016
- Binding type:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 312
- ISBN:
- 9781632430205