Keith Waldrop
Keith Waldrop Poems
Among other economies, I'm of two
minds, one possessed, the other
a deep peace. Violent trembling
...
From where I sit, I can see other
things: a silver porcupine, pins
standing upright. It is a vanished tale of a
vanished forest at the shore of a vanished ocean.
...
The wind dying, I find a city deserted, except for crowds of
people moving and standing.
Those standing resemble stories, like stones, coal from the
death of plants, bricks in the shape of teeth.
...
Afterward, to tell how it was possible to
identify absolute space, a matter of great
difficulty, keeping in mind always
that not all old music is beautiful and
...
Herr Stimmung—purblind—moves in corporeal time.
Think how many, by now, have escaped the world's memory.
Think, how all his wandering is only thought. Having once tried to
live in the quasi-stupor of sensation, now he picks his way through
...
things
forgotten
I could
burn in hell forever
...
Do not alarm yourself, I
could not rest content with
moral lectures and continual
repetition
...
My first glance takes in
an army, tens of thousands ready
armed. As a mirror reflects
indistinctly and with a feeble
...
Keith Waldrop Biography
Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (2006). Mr. Waldrop received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1964. With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and is professor emeritus at Brown University. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres.)
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Light Travels
common time I follow you un-
kept secret on
a basic undersound
common time I follow you un-
kept secret on
a basic undersound
this is the first part of the rhyme
allow for sequences of overheard
this is the first part of the rhyme
allow for sequences of overheard
close the curtains but
playful elaborations of other-
wise arrogant variations keeping
the window open
close the curtains but
playful elaborations of otherwise
arrogant variation keeping
the window open
as it's wrong to shut
one's eyes to dream
it's raining while it is in fact raining
as it's wrong to shut
one's eyes to dream it's
raining while it is in fact raining
ears busied with hearing more than
one voice the stream our tears unmirror
ears busied with hearing more than
one voice the stream our tears unmirror
or mere error as if
naturally hard of
divided
noise rings in our fears
or mere error as if
naturally hard of
divided
noise rings in our fears
expands danger within our
long thin hands contract
across quiet gravel
expands danger within our
long thin hands contract
across quiet gravel
narrow fruit tin cans
loss of the white of other eyes
narrow fruit tin cans
loss of the white of other eyes
song out of mind
song out of mind
or am I
tethered
so blind a coloring of thought
or am I
tethered so
blind a coloring of thought
intrinsically fuzzy the sound as
pavement
intrinsically fuzzy the sound as
pavement
whereas tenses
are
a later
development
whereas tenses
are
a later
development
limits of a body open
sea the great sea
journey
limits of a body open
sea the great sea
journey
how different the grammars of
to think or swim
how different the grammars of
to think or swim
reminiscence and extinction
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