{"id":748,"date":"2009-02-19T07:20:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2009-02-19T07:20:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T15:20:09","slug":"keith-waldrop-poetry-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/keith-waldrop-poetry-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Waldrop @ Poetry Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great pleasure last night to catch a rare (at least for me) appearance of Keith Waldrop<\/a> at the Poetry Project. He is one of the secret treasures \u2014 I wanted to say secret masters \u2014 of poetry in this country today. \u0651Well, semi-secret, judging from the large and appreciative audience that had gathered last night \u2014 but still, his work should indeed be way better known than it is. Maybe his new book, Transcendental Studies – A Trilogy<\/em><\/a>, just out from University of California Press<\/a>, will do just that. And don’t worry about the title:\u00a0 before reading from the book, KW explained (hand pointing at where he was standing & then at something\u00a0 a bit further away) that something transcendental is something that “is not here, it’s over there.”\u00a0 I was enthralled by the reading, the quiet intensity, the accuracy of the saying,\u00a0 where, to misquote him, tropology maps topology \u2014 so much so that I forgot to video until nearly the end. Here, then, the last 40 seconds of his reading:<\/p>\n

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