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November 20, 2007
Rosmarie Waldrop, MA'60, PhD'66
Dissonance (if you are interested), University of Alabama Press, 2005.
The book: As an immigrant from Germany, Rosmarie Waldrop has wrestled with the problems of language posed by the discrepancies between her native and adopted tongues. Instead of posing problems, those discrepancies have become a generative force and the foundation of Waldro's interests as a critic and poet. In this collection of essays, Waldrop addresses typical genres and ways of countering the conventions of genre, how concrete poets have made syntax spatial rather than grammatical and the move away from metaphor in poetry toward contiguity and metonymy.
The author: Rosmarie Waldrop is coeditor and publisher of Burning Deck Press as well as the author/editor of 16 books of poetry, two novels and three books of criticism, including "Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes."
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:54 AM