Over nearly four decades, National Book Award winner Keith Waldrop has amassed a huge body of lyrical collage work alongside his acclaimed oeuvre of poetry, fiction and translation. Waldrop's collages express quiet tensions and ghostly impressions in a few snips of the scissors. Several Gravities presents a selection of these radiant collages and includes a previously unpublished serial poem and essay by Waldrop.
"The alliance of Waldrop’s writing to his pictures and of his pictures to his writings is marked by meaningful cross currents, both as regards his procedures and his general artistic stances. Air in one is coeval with the air in the other. Borders and horizons sway; the 'unbeheld', a space of proximities and distances, desire above all, melancholy above all, mark both picture and poem. What is enunciated and what is withheld in one medium rhymes with the enunciation and absences in the other… Jean Cocteau famously wrote in Dessins, 'Poets don’t draw, they unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again but differently.' In Keith Waldrop’s case, what is unraveled is not perhaps handwriting (though it is that too), but the poem as work of collage—a kind of aerial feat that attempts to delineate the unbridgeable spaces between things through the construction of artifacts into form, both visual and verbal."
FORMAT: Hbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs / 36 color / 5 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $39.50 LIST PRICE: CANADA $52.5 GBP £35.00 ISBN: 9780979956218 PUBLISHER: Siglio AVAILABLE: 4/30/2009 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD Except France
Published by Siglio. Edited and with text by Robert Seydel.
Over nearly four decades, National Book Award winner Keith Waldrop has amassed a huge body of lyrical collage work alongside his acclaimed oeuvre of poetry, fiction and translation. Waldrop's collages express quiet tensions and ghostly impressions in a few snips of the scissors. Several Gravities presents a selection of these radiant collages and includes a previously unpublished serial poem and essay by Waldrop.
