Keith Waldrop

Poet, Translator

Providence, RI
Rhode Island US
Email: 
keith_waldrop@brown.edu

Author's Bio

Keith Waldrop is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, prose, and translation, and was awarded the 2009 National Book Award for poetry for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy. His translations of French literature include writing by Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, Edmond Jabès, and most recently Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. Waldrop has received an NEA Fellowship for translation, a stipend from the DAAD Berlin Artists’ Program, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Waldrop died at the age of ninety on July 27, 2023.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Selected Poems (Omnidawn, 2016)
,
Light While There Is Light (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013)
,
The Not Forever (Omnidawn, 2013)
,
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press, 2009)
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The Real Subject (Omnidawn, 2004)
,
The Locality Principle (Avec Books, 1995)

More Information

Born in: 
Emporia, KS
Kansas
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Last update: Oct 10, 2023