Reviews
Semiramis if I Remember
by Keith Waldrop
Completing a trilogy that includes
The Locality Principle and The Silhouette of the Bridge, Waldrop--professor
at Brown University, co-editor of Burning Deck Press and leading light
of experimental poetry--deals in premature death, aged death, biblical
death...good death... [and] the shifting subjectivity of death. Cumulatively,
these absences afford preponderant evidence of life, which, in this booklength
series, quietly and purposefully makes for a positive proof: "I look at
them/and wonder what it was I was trying to photograph.//I piss into the
bowl, The sound reassures me.//...The World begins in the evening.
The year begins in
/winter."
--Publishers Weekly
Praise for Keith Waldrop and the trilogy:
"This is one slim volume that emanates a strange magic: haunting, witty
aphoristic."
-The San Francisco Chronicle ( on The Silhouette of the Bridge)
"One of the most important writers, translators and publishers of
avant-garde literature in our time."
-Publishers Weekly ( on The Silhouette of the Bridge)
"Waldrop writes for those who like to read a poem more than once, not
because they didn't understand it the first time, but because it
was such a pleasure. His words just don't dissolve, but hold in the reader's
mind and mouth with a delicious aftertaste."
-American Book Review (on The Locality Principle)