Full name: Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy

Author: Keith Waldrop Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780520258785 9780520258778 0520258789 0520258770

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 painter Robert Motherwell, imposes a tonal override on purloined materials, yet the originals continue to show through. These powerful poems, at once metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop's romantic tendencies with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and revealing him as a transcendentalist for the new millennium. This book is part of the "New California Poetry" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Virgil and the Mountain Cat" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "This Connection of Everyone with Lungs" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Why/Why Not" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Commons" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Sleeping with the Dictionary" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Age of Huts" First published in 1986 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: New and Selected Poems: Volume 2 by Mary Oliver Citizen by Claudia Rankine Good Poems by Garrison Keillor A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver House of Light by Mary Oliver Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay Alive Together by Lisel Mueller When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by John Berryman Black Country by Liz Berry American Primitive by Mary Oliver Traveling through the Dark by William Stafford Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Gluck Cold Calls by Christopher Logue Buffalo Dance by Frank X. Walker