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Keith Waldrop Conversation
Hosted by
Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on
Friday, December 18th, 2009
">Keith Waldrop talks with host Charles Bernstein about growing up in Kansas, the influence of Christianity on his poetry and his work as a translator. Waldrop grew up in Kansas and studied at the universities of Aix-Marseille and Michigan, earning a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1964. Waldrop's first book of poetry, A Windmill Near Calvary (University of Michigan Press, 1968), was nominated for a National Book Award. His more recent titles include Several Gravities (Siglio, 2009), a collection of collages, and two collections of Charles Baudelaire translations, The Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan University Press, 2006) and Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). Sun & Moon published his fictional memoir, Light While There Is Light, in 1993. With Rosmarie Waldrop, he is the editor and publisher of Burning Deck Press. A prolific translator of French poetry, he has worked with texts by poets as diverse as Jean Grosjean and Claude Royet-Journoud. He teaches in the Literary Arts department of Brown University (30 minutes).









