For Rosmarie on Her Eightieth
For Rosmarie on Her Eightieth
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“I don’t even have thoughts, I have methods that make language think, take over and me by the hand. Into sense or offense, syntax stretched across rules, relations of force, fluid the dip of the plumb line, the pull of eyes…”
—Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop has composed, published and translated some of the most compelling and innovative writing of the last half-century. This pamphlet marks the occasion of her 80th birthday. Along with poems, fragments, and notes from a sampling of her friends and admirers, it includes a bibliography—hopefully already outdated—of her important work.
Compiled and designed by Ben Lerner and Anna Moschovakis and produced with love by UDP. Special thanks to Carl Schlachte and Emma Wipperman.
Excerpt
POETRY IS ALL TALK
Rosmarie Waldrop says poetry does have to be this way because it is a chance wander in a forest, a banquet and not a school, and so late all of the masterpieces have gone to bed. Over wine early into the next morning the talk is still going on of the wrestle with histories and the collision of tongues with the archives and philosophy that are in the room above the letterpress printer, the unforgiving hybrids, the translators, the Francophiles, the road is everywhere, the white-page minimalists, the children of the “negation of tradition.”
—Mark McMorris
