Rosmarie Waldrop

Rosmarie Waldrop’s recent books are Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, 2017), Driven to Abstraction, Curves to the Apple, Blindsight (all New Directions), Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn). Her novel, The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter, has been reissued by Dorothy, a Publishing Project, and her collected essays, Dissonance (if you are interested) is out from University of Alabama Press. She has translated 14 volumes of Edmond Jabès’s work (her memoir, Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès, is out from Wesleyan UP) as well as volumes by Emmanuel Hocquard, Jacques Roubaud, and, from the German, Friederike Mayröcker, Elke Erb, Oskar Pastior, Gerhard Rühm, Ulf Stolterfoht, and Peter Waterhouse. With Keith Waldrop, she has published Well Well Reality (Post-Apollo Press), Ceci n’est pas Keith Ceci n’est pas Rosmarie (autobiographies, Burning Deck), and Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop, Keeping/ the Window Open: Interviews, statements, alarms, excursions, ed. Ben Lerner (Wave Books). They live in Providence where they co-edited the small press, Burning Deck.