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Keith Waldrop

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August 8, 2011 Waldrop Keith

And

 

THE COOL OF THE EVENING

and
the recondite notion that
God intended His
image to
stand like a statue

 

so that God-Only-
Stroller might come across
His likeness
unmoving un-meaning

CURIOUSLY LIKE DEFINITION

peak
notions and empty
bowl

time
spent

•

when have I been
and

where

DREAM STATE

seeking and

•

the immortals are all dead

 

Keith Waldrop’s triology Transcendental Studies won the 2009 National Book Award. He has published over 30 books of poetry and translation, including versions of Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen, and with Rosmarie Waldrop, he is the founder and editor of Burning Deck Press. He is also a prolific collage artist; a volume joining his visual and verbal work, Several Gravities, was published in 2009 by Siglio.

Plume: Issue #2 August 2011