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.