Description
Book SynopsisA rich array of materials coalesce here into a vibrant portrait, in text and image, of two extraordinary artists and collaborators. For nearly sixty years, the Waldrops have influenced multiple generations of writers through their own poetry and fiction, translations, teaching, and their press, Burning Deck, which published some of the most influential authors of late-twentieth-century avant-garde literature. This collection seeks to illustrate the many ways in which the Waldrops have expanded the possibilities of bookcraft, art, community, and literature.
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Aaron Kunin
Light Travels
Ceci n'est pas Keith, Ceci n'est pas Rosmarie
from The Wolgamot Interstice (1961)
from Aesthetic Uses of Obscenity, Keith Waldrop (graduate thesis, U Michigan)
from Against Language?, Rosmarie Waldrop (graduate thesis, U Michigan)
Change of Address (1968, cover photo by Walt Odets)
"Paris" from The Form of a City Changes Faster Alas Than the Human Heart (Jacques Roubaud, tr. Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, 2006)
photo from Jabes house, Jabes drawing
from The Book of Questions (Edmond Jabès, tr. Rosmarie Waldrop, 1976)
from Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès
from Etat (Anne-Marie Albiach, tr. Keith Waldrop)
Claude Royet-Journoud: translation and letters
from "An Interview with Claude Royet-Journoud by Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop" (1985) Translation as Collaboration (KW)
"XXIV" and "XXV" from A Test of Solitude (Emmanuel Hocquard, tr. Rosmarie Waldrop, Serie d'Ecriture #12, 2000)
Irreducible Strangeness (2001)
"1st Weather" from Heiligenastalt (Friederike Mayrocker, tr. Rosmarie Waldrop, Dicten= #1, 1994)
from "Music Is an Oversimplification of the Situation We Are In (in memory of John Cage)" from A Dark Octave (Burning Deck, 1967)
author photo and poems from Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger (1972)
from When They Have Senses (1980)
photo (Paol Keineg)
Thinking of Follows (1996)
from Differences for Four Hands (1984)
Why I Write Prose Poems (1987)
from Reproduction of Profiles (1987)
photo (Mangoldt, 1995)
from Interview with Matthew Cooperman
from A Key into The Language of America (1994)
from A Form / Of Taking / It All (1990)
Alarms and Excursions (1988)
from Hanky of Pippin's Daughter (1986)
from Interview with Joan Retallack
Cut With the Kitchen Knife (2016)
Rosmarie Waldrop, Interview with Ben Lerner (2017)
poster from Wastepaper Theater
The Resemblance Begins, play by Keith Waldrop (1976/1994)
from Tank Line (1966)
"Connecticut Elegy" (Burning Deck,1969)
DO NOT DISTURB (song) from Songs from the Decline of the West (1970)
from My Nodebook in December (1971)
"To Rosmarie in Bad Kissingen" from the New Yorker (October 30, 1971)
"Concept of Through" (from The Garden of Effort, 1976, written 1971)
from The Quest for Mount Misery
"Statement on Collage" (from A Grammar of Collage, edited by François Hugot, 1993) Collage(s) by Keith Waldrop (unpublished)
from Shipwreck in Haven/Transcendental Studies
Peter Gizzi and Keith Waldrop, REAL SHADOWS: INTERVIEW (1993–1997)
stills from The Logical Structure of the World (film by Keith Waldrop)
from Light While There Is Light
Photo of Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop at printer [year, photographer]
selections from Burning Deck magazine, issues one through four (1962–1965)
Introduction to A Century in Two Decades: A Burning Deck Anthology, 1961–1981 Introduction to Burning Deck: One Score More (2002)
"W" from Flat with No Key
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Rosmarie Waldrop bibliography
Keith Waldrop bibliography
Acknowledgments
