Siglio is pleased to announce the publication of
Several Gravities by Keith Waldrop
edited with an essay by Robert Seydel
SEVERAL GRAVITIES
For nearly four decades, Keith Waldrop has been creating a body of visual art that—while mirroring his extraordinary and internationally acclaimed oeuvre of poetry, fiction and translation—has lived largely outside the public eye. Several Gravities, this first collection of Waldrop’s radiant visual collages not only reveals an essential facet of his extraordinary oeuvre, but also summons a mesmerizing world in which the invisible and the absent are roused and rise to the surface. Like his collage poems, the images are enveloped in ghosted impressions, quiet tensions, strands of memory and fragments of dream.
Several Gravities (casebound, 112 pages, color illus. $39.50) features a substantial selection of collages as well as a new unpublished serial poem and an essay by Waldrop that enunciates the relationship between his distinctive visual and poetic practices. Editor Robert Seydel contributes an incisive essay on Waldrop’s work—its expression of the poet-artist “tradition,” and its expansion of the collage form.
For a slide show of images and more about the book, go to Several Gravities.
Keith Waldrop is the author of over two dozen works of poetry and prose, an eminent translator, and with wife Rosmarie the founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press. Publishers Weekly has said: “Waldrop, not as well-known as he should be, is among the most important writers, translators, and publishers of avant-garde literature in our time.” See Keith Waldrop’s biography.
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LIMITED EDITION
A signed and numbered limited edition of 30 includes an original, miniature collage from Keith Waldrop’s series “Metro Tickets.” $100.
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