KEITH WALDROP is the author of 16 books of poetry. He has also translated 11 books of poetry from the French. He teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and, with Rosmarie Waldrop, is editor of the small press, Burning Deck. His Silhouette of the Bridge (Avec Books) received the Americas Award for Poetry for 1997. He has translated, among others, Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Paol Keineg, Dominique Fourcade, Pascal Quignard, and Jean Grosjean. Besides the trilogy from Avec, recent Books include Analogies of Escape (Burning Deck), Haunt (Instance), and the collected collaborations with Rosmarie Waldrop, Well Well Reality (Post-Apollo Press). In 1999 he received the Chevalier des arts et des lettres from the French Government.