Keeping / the window open: Interviews, Statements, Alarms, Excursions

by Keith Waldrop, Rosemarie Waldrop, Ben Lerner (Editor)

A rich array of materials coalesce here into a vibrant portrait, in text and image, of two extraordinary artists and collaborators. For nearly sixty years, the Waldrops have influenced multiple generations of writers through their own poetry and fiction, translations, teaching, and their press, Burning Deck, which published some of the most influential authors of late-twentieth-century avant-garde literature. This collection seeks to illustrate the many ways in which the Waldrops have expanded the possibilities of bookcraft, art, community, and literature.

Genres: Poetry

392 pages, Paperback

Published May 7, 2019

About the author

American poet and academic, author of numerous books of poetry and prose, translator of the works of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, Edmond Jabès, Charles Baudelaire, and others.

Reviews

[Taylor Napolsky · Rating 5 out of 5]

A phenomenal dive into the life of the minds of two artists working their asses off for cultural and artistic progression, freedom, and journeying. The whole book, but especially some of the interviews, are enlightening, constantly keeping me thrilled with intellectual leaps and feints, twists into unknown, uncertain territory, with the willingness to be exploratory and open-ended and playful and constantly interested making a big impact on me. This is all so well done; it absolutely helped me hone in on some (admittedly vague) stuff of my own...ideas that maybe had been waiting for the right time to explode, then implode. I'm so glad I read this!