In this collection, Waldrop has dedicated many poems to other writers whom she esteems, and in each poem, echoes subtly that writer's forms, tones, and textures. From this synchronism, Waldrop evolves
Norma Cole says that "a poem is a made place, a deedless deed that stakes out or constellates ambiguity without laying claim to it, without attempting to master or contain it." She has here assembled
This bilingual volume, with the French and English on facing pages, is a translation of a book of poems by Rene Char, a 20th-century French poet known for his work of great beauty. Fierce, lyrical, se