Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy Volume 27

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.

Author: Keith Waldrop
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/02/2009
Series: New California Poetry #27
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780520258785


Award: National Book Awards - Winner