books by Rosmarie Waldrop     books:       Collected Prose1 review Paul Celan Sheep Meadow, 1990 Remarkable! A thin volume that will blow you away. A collection of prose, some unbelievably brief in length, by Paul Celan, one of Europe's foremost poets. Celan, who was scarred by the concentration camps, pushed language to its every edge -- and beyond -- in his poems. The essay "Meridian," in this volume, is his longest commentary on what poetry is, and what it does. It is a remarkable essay, dense yet readable, provocative, erudite, ...             Desire for a Beginning/Dread of One Single End1 review Edmond Jabes Granary Books, 2001 Last substantial work? In content not size Jabes is rarely easy to read - his demands on the reader are too high. In this slim volume, this is even more true for, if one has not read other works by Jabes, it would be difficult to place his primary vocabulary - page, book, Nothingness, etc. - in the intended context. If you are familiar with his work, however, you will find all the usual reasons for loving the book. An example of an ...             The Form of the City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart (French Literature Series)1 review Jacques Roubaud Dalkey Archive Pr, 2006 A collection written as an homage and response to the best-known poets of France The Form Of A City Changes Faster, Alas, Than The Human Heart is a collection written as an homage and response to the best-known poets of France, including Charles Baudelaire and Raymond Queneau, is the latest work by author Jacques Roubaud. The free verse varies widely in structure from poem to poem, and all the works offer a keenly whetted slice of insight into the dynamic history and culture ...             Curves to the Apple: The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, Reluctant Gravities1 review Rosmarie Waldrop New Directions, 2006 Brilliant work It's good to see these three collections of prose poems finally out as a trilogy from New Directions. Anyone who has any interest in what can be done with language and prose poems should buy this. Rosmarie Waldrop, a major practionner of the prose poem, is not 'difficult', as some have suggested - the music of the sentences and the images she creates are impossible to resist.             Rimbaud in Abyssinia1 review Alain Borer William Morrow & Co, 1991 rimbaud's last years Having read Fowlie, Miller, Starkie, as well as the more recent British biographies, I still come back to this timeless, intricate, beautifully written (and translated) meditation on Rimbaud. Borer succeeds in linking the adult tradesman and adventurer with the child poet and voyeur. He also does a brilliant job defending Rimbaud from Enid Starkie's mid-20th century libel, proving that the "poet ...             The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis1 review Jacques Roubaud Dalkey Archive Press, 1995 The Shadows of Logic Beautifully discursive and masterfully styled, The Plurality Of Worlds Of Lewis takes David Lewis' turgid, and yet very dry, philosphical treatise on possibility and maps it onto a space convoluted by Roubaud's own pungent sorrow. It is as if the widower has looked at a map, recognized the impossibility of finding his beloved in this mountainous region, and yet, he goes to look, because in the ...             A Key into the Language of America1 review Rosmarie Waldrop New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997 Magesterial? This is a fabulous book, a true treasure, an amazing and revelatory book to read.             Reft and Light: Poems by Ernst Jandl With Multiple Versions by American Poets (Dichten =, No. 4)1 review Ernst Jandl, Rosmarie Waldrop Burning Deck, 2000 A Playful, Brilliant Poet & A Fascinating Book Please, please don't hesitate if you are considering buying this book. If you love words and have any sense of humor & pleasure in pure wordplay, you will be enthralled. I picked it up & couldn't put it down, have spent many hours now trying to duplicate some of the odd & challenging forms Jandl invents/uses. His poetry is a little like an intellectualized version of the jazz riff - he goes ...             The Book of Shares (Religion and Postmodernism Series)1 review Edmond Jabes University Of Chicago Press, 1989 Intriguing, thought-provoking, unique This book made me a Edmond Jabes fan - I doubt that any other of his books would have for this is by far the most accessible. Jabes is an Egyptian Jew in exile in France writing primarily after the Holocaust. His writing style is a series of snippets - fiction, poetry, aphorisms - that explore the limits of language and the role of the blank, the silence, the desert, the unwritten. In The ...             Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes3 reviews Rosmarie Waldrop Wesleyan, 2003 awash in a gift Rosmarie Waldrop presents small, various accounts of the relationship she has had with the French poet Edmond Jabes. The relationship is manifold for her as she recounts, first as a poet and reader, then as a translator and friend to Jabes. These sparks of recollection accumulate unpredictably and gently. Waldrop generously shares her intelligent courses of reading Jabes, her nearly vertiginous ...             Another Language: Selected Poems Rosmarie Waldrop Talisman House Publishers, 1997 Critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, Waldrop is among her generation's pre-eminent writers. A novelist, translator, and editor as well as a poet, she is also co-publisher of Burning Deck Press. Another Language includes substantial selections from such highly praised works as Lawn of Excluded Middle, The Reproduction of Profiles and A Key into the Language of America.             A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book1 review Edmond Jabes Wesleyan, 1993 subversive and suspicious This is not a narrative but a series of aphorisms which occasionally grow into more precise prose meditations. Aphorisms however sometimes sound like clever twists of logic which prove nothing but verbal dexterity though and that is one problem with Jabes work. But that weakness is also sometimes a strength as Jabes makes use of the malleability inherent in language to stress the malleability in ...             The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book] (The Book of Questions , Vol 1)3 reviews Edmond Jabes Wesleyan, 1991 questions this book changed my life forever. it changed the way i see life, religion, my culture, and writing. if you haven't read it yet, you don't know the feeling of suddenly falling but remaining in the same place.             Reluctant Gravities1 review Rosmarie Waldrop New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999 The mystery of conversation in poetry Reluctant Gravities gives the reader a series of two voice conversations of debate that fashions concrete images and manages to also puzzle in the same instant. Each conversation is interrupted by poetic interludes that are often lovely breaks from the witty and often enigmatic conversations about "Aging," "Desire," and "Depression," among other topics. Reluctant Gravities is indeed "reluctant" ...              search for books absence, abyssinia, america, american, another, beginning, carrying, changes, collected, dichten, excluded, foreigner, gravities, language, lavish, literature, multiple, plurality, postmodernism, profiles, questions, recalling, religion, reluctant, reproduction, rereading, rimbaud, selected, shares, versions books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Nymph King (Atlantis, Book 3) we recommend awash in a gift leave a comment home  impressum - about us