The Paris Review - "A Major Poet of Quiet": Ben Lerner on Keith Waldrop
On Keith Waldrop. Keith Waldrop is a quiet major poet, a major poet of quiet. His accomplishment is difficult to describe because his work refuses, in Bartleby-like fashion, the twin traps of impassivity and affectation: “On my one hand, / stasis – on the / other, striving for effect.” In one of his very few […]
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