Gap Gardening: Selected Poems
Rosmarie Waldrop's Gap Gardening: Selected Poems is a selected volume that gathers four decades of poetic work. It brings together highly experimental poems that trace the spaces between language, absence, perception, and memory.
Work Information
A selected volume spanning forty years of poetry and the spaces between words.
Published by New Directions, this selected volume traces Rosmarie Waldrop's shifts from short-lined verse to prose poems and collage-like writing. It uses gaps and slippages to probe how language itself works.
Book Information
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Published
- 2016-04-19
- Pages
- 232 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780811225144
- ISBN-10
- 0811225143
- Price
- 4161 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Rosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems, to focusing on the sentence and its boundaries, my increasing reliance on collage and source texts as a way of engaging with other voices, of being in dialogue.Gap Gardening also traces Waldrops growing sense of writing as an exploration of what happens in between. Between words, sentences, people, cultures. Between fragment and flow, thinking and feeling, mind and body. For the first time, we have a complete and clear view of the work of a great and inquiring, brave and indispensable poet.
ROSMARIE WALDROP, born in Germany in 1935, is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and a noted translator of French and German poetry. Her most recent books are The Nick of Time , Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize), and Driven to Abstraction .
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Four Stars
poems to address the other national deficit: critical thinking