{"id":2417,"date":"2009-11-19T09:43:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T13:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2009-11-19T09:43:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T13:43:42","slug":"2417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/2417\/","title":{"rendered":"National Book Award for poetry to Keith Waldrop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Keith\"<\/a>Last night the National Book Award for poetry\u00a0 went to:<\/p>\n

Keith Waldrop<\/h2>\n

Transcendental Studies<\/h2>\n

A Trilogy<\/h3>\n

published by the University of California Press. Details here<\/a>. F\u00e9licitations, Keith! Here, the opening three poems of the first sequence, Shipwreck in Haven<\/em>:<\/p>\n

1
\nBalancing. Austere. Life-
\nless. I have tried to keep
\ncontext from claiming you.<\/p>\n

Without doors. And there are
\nwindows. How far, how
\nfar into the desert have we come?<\/p>\n

Rude instruments, product
\nof my garden. Might also be
\ndifferent, what I am thinking of.<\/p>\n

So you see: it is
\nnot symmetrical, dark
\nred out of the snow.<\/p>\n

2
\nEnemies for therapy, the
\nrind of the lime tree
\nin elaborate garlands.<\/p>\n

Strew the table. Let the hall
\nbe garlanded and lit, the will
\nto break away. Welcome your couches.<\/p>\n

Witness these details. Your judgment, my
\ninclination. Hear. Touch. Taste.
\nTranslate. Fixed: the river.<\/p>\n

Disquieting thought, I am not
\nultimate, full moon, memory.
\nPrepare for rout.<\/p>\n

3
\nHere, even, in the
\nsand. Among the rocks, I have
\nheard, remnant of a cloud.<\/p>\n

Unfleshed, short, thin, pointed.
\nIndependent of you, a
\nrevelation. A great city.<\/p>\n

Flatly unknown, you do not
\nknow of yourself, do not know
\nyourself, not stuck full of nails.<\/p>\n

Under such illumination, darkness
\nbecomes terror. Under this high
\nwall, dark ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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