Thursday, November 19, 2009

Keith Waldrop Wins National Book Award in Poetry

For more information about the new NBA winner and sample poems, see the National Book Foundation site:
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2009_p_waldrop.html
Judges were Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A. Van Jordan, Cole Swensen, and Kevin Young


Keith Waldrop, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities at Brown University, has published more than a dozen works each of original poetry and translations. His first book, A Windmill Near Calvary, was shortlisted for the 1968 National Book Award. Recent books include The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems, The House Seen from Nowhere, and a translation of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.

SUGGESTED LINKS

EPC/Keith Waldrop Home Page
A resource of the Electronic Poetry Center, an edited site devoted to the presentation of full-text resources for innovative writing.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/waldropk/index.html

Keith Waldrop Wikipedia Entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Waldrop

Keith Waldrop page at Poets.org
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1575