The Opposite of Letting The Mind Wander: Selected Poems and a Few Songs (Lost roads) [Paperback]

Keith Waldrop (Author)

Book Description

Series: Lost roads | Publication Date: January 1, 1989

Poetry. " All of Waldrop's work evokes the conflict between activity and passivity, doing and being, poetry as discovery and poetry as invention. In fact, reading Waldrop gives the reader two impressions, often in rapid succession: that of participating in a desperate search for a lost and possibly non-existent item; and that of sitting still, trying to be so quiet a tiny voice will reach one from a distance. The energy in these poems goes into the effort of thought, of meditation, not into the lines. Like Wallace Stevens in his early long poems (and like any phenomenologist) Waldrop strips perceptions of accretions so that they can be seen in their first light, without falsification. The effect is in both cases a poem that is smooth flowing on the surface but dense with effort and energy underneath" - Janet McCann, Parnassus: Poetry in Review.

Editorial Reviews

Review

71 Elmgrove Avenue
Angel To Love, Man To World
Antiquary
Archipelago
Around The Block
Autobiography
The Centuries
Chromatic Study
Communication
Connecticut Elegy
Conversion
Credo
Degeneration
Do Not Distrub
Fall Song
A Hatful Of Flood (1)
A Hatful Of Flood (10)
A Hatful Of Flood (2)
A Hatful Of Flood (3)
A Hatful Of Flood (4)
A Hatful Of Flood (5)
A Hatful Of Flood (6)
A Hatful Of Flood (7)
A Hatful Of Flood (8)
A Hatful Of Flood (9)
Horror Story
How To Tell Distances
In Passing
Indifference Point (1)
Indifference Point (2)
Indifference Point (3)
Indifference Point (4)
Indifference Point (5)
Indifference Point (6)
Indifference Point (7)
Indifference Point (8)
Introducing A Madman
Lunch
Money
Motion Discomfort
My Notebook For December (1)
My Notebook For December (10)
My Notebook For December (11)
My Notebook For December (2)
My Notebook For December (3)
My Notebook For December (4)
My Notebook For December (5)
My Notebook For December (6)
My Notebook For December (7)
My Notebook For December (8) Xmas (after Pessoa)
My Notebook For December (9)
Paper
Poem From Memory
Progressing
The Ruins Of Providence
Sixth Transcendental Study
Sleeping Beauty
Song For Crossing A Bridge
Three Logical Poems (1) A Rational Horizon
Three Logical Poems (2) Cookbook Illustrations
Three Logical Poems (3) The Ends Of The Earth
Three Poems Of Position (1) Sailing The Wall
Three Poems Of Position (2) Standing
Three Poems Of Position (3) A Delicate Empiricism
To Rosmarie In Bad Kissingen
Water Marks (1)
Water Marks (10)
Water Marks (11)
Water Marks (12)
Water Marks (13)
Water Marks (14)
Water Marks (15)
Water Marks (16)
Water Marks (17)
Water Marks (18)
Water Marks (19)
Water Marks (2)
Water Marks (20)
Water Marks (21)
Water Marks (3)
Water Marks (4)
Water Marks (5)
Water Marks (6)
Water Marks (7)
Water Marks (8)
Water Marks (9)
The Wind Is Laughing
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Keith Waldrop is author of numerous collections of poetry and is the translator of The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabes, as well as works by Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach and Jean Grosjean. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and DAAD (Berlin). His titles include HEGEL'S FAMILY, THE OPPOSITE OF LETTING THE MIND WANDER: SELECTED POEMS AND A FEW SONGS, SHIPWRECK IN HAVEN: TRANSCENDENTAL STUDIES, The Balustrade, Light While There is Light, THE LOCALITY PRINCIPLE, ANALOGIES OF ESCAPE and HAUNT. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Award: for his first book of poetry, A Windmill Near Calvary (University of Michigan, 1968); and his most recent, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press, 2009), which won. With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop he co-edits Burning Deck Press. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and teaches at Brown University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 125 pages
• Publisher: Lost Roads Publishers (January 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 091878641X
• ISBN-13: 978-0918786418
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,379,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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