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Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (New California Poetry)
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Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (New California Poetry) Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Waldrop, Keith


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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.

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  • Title Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (New California Poetry)
  • Author Waldrop, Keith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2009-03
  • ISBN 9780520258778

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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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