Waldrop, Rosmarie

Against language? Dissatisfaction with language as theme and as impulse towards experiments in twentieth century poetry by Rosmarie Waldrop( )

3 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 1,151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reluctant gravities by Rosmarie Waldrop( Book )

12 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 286 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This influential avant-garde doyenne. . . handily manages the paradox of the lucid enigma. . . She maintains a distinctly American voice--quick-witted, conversational, and visually concrete. . . a poetry that pleases no less than it puzzles. --Voice Literary Supplement

A key into the language of America by Rosmarie Waldrop( Book )

15 editions published between 1994 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A white woman's recreation of the sound and spirit of Indian poetry. A sampler: "eagle / turkey / partridge / cormorant / Ptowewushannick. / They are fled."

The reproduction of profiles by Rosmarie Waldrop( Book )

23 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 269 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recueil de poèmes en prose

The aggressive ways of the casual stranger by Rosmarie Waldrop( Book )

8 editions published between 1972 and 1980 in English and held by 266 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sound of poetry, the poetry of sound by Marjorie Perloff( Book )

1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sound--one of the central elements of poetry--finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and sound--connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies. Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, the contributors to The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound explore such subjects as the translatabil

The plurality of worlds of Lewis by Jacques Roubaud( Book )

1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The geometry of life in prose and poetry by a French mathematician. In The End of Clouds, he writes: "Solitude suited them. Not that they were faltering, but there are different ways of sliding across the sky. I would never have thought that such soft, cottony concentration could be reconciled with such an exigent geometry. But how, without any support, consent to dissolution?" By the author of Some Thing Black

Lavish absence : recalling and rereading Edmond Jabès by Rosmarie Waldrop( Book )

5 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The writing interweaves these topics, evoking Jabes's own interest in the themes of exile and nomadism."--Jacket

The little book of unsuspected subversion by Edmond Jabès( Book )

4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 239 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essai

Blindsight by Rosmarie Waldrop( Book )

5 editions published between 1998 and 2003 in English and held by 234 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The first, "Holderlin Hybrids," resonates against the German poet's twisted syntax, while using rhythmic punctuation in counterpoint to sense. "As Were'" says Waldrop, began with looking at the secondary occupations of artists - for example, Mallarme teaching English, Montaigne serving as mayor of Bordeaux - but this soon gave way to playing more generally with particular aspects of historical figures." The title section, Blindsight," is most consistent in its use of collage, juxtaposing words and images to jolting, epiphanic effect. "Cornell Boxes," in contrast, has a formal unity, inspired by the constructions of Joseph Cornell, each prose poem "box" composed in a structure of fours: four paragraphs of four sentences each, with four footnotes."--Jacket