Rosmarie Waldrop, born in Germany in 1935, is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and a noted translator of French and German poetry. Her most recent books are The Nick of Time, Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize), and Driven to Abstraction. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts of Letters, and is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. For fifty-six years, she and her husband Keith Waldrop ran one of the country’s most vibrant experimental poetry presses, Burning Deck, in Providence, Rhode Island.
"Waldrop’s art wrenches clarity out of disorientation, and rather
than to distraction, drives us, inimitably toward the keenest
attention, to words, her words, and the world."
*John Keene - Drunken Boat*
"Rosmarie Waldrop’s life work has cultivated a trenchant penchant
for the liminal, the interstitial, the hybrid, the fertile ground
between identities and homelands."
*Kevin Carollo - Rain Taxi*
"[Waldrop’s poetry] makes us think hard about the way language
works, and about how words catalyze reality, rather than transcribe
it."
*Dan Chiasson - The New Yorker*
"The Nick of Time...contains some of the finest writing of her
distinguished career. [T]emporality, always an underlying concern
of her work, moves unmistakably to the fore."
*Ryan Ruby - Poetry Foundation*
"In her first new collection in a decade, Waldrop astonishes with
poems that explore uncertainty and grief, and reckon with time,
language, and memory….These intellectual poems are suffused with
intimacy, as Waldrop invites the reader to accompany her on a
contemplative trek through the mysteries of the universe. It’s a
trip well worth taking."
*Publishers Weekly, (starred review)*
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