Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy Volume 27

by Keith Waldrop

Book Overview

This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences--"Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruvius"--in a virtuosic poetic triptych. In these quasi-abstract, experimental lines, collaged words torn from their contexts take on new meanings. Waldrop, a longtime admirer of such artists as the French poet Raymond Queneau and the American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258789
• ISBN13: 9780520258785
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 7.7"