Keith Waldrop
Keith Waldrop is an American poet and academic. He has authored numerous books of poetry and prose and translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. He won the National Book Award in Poetry for his 2009 collection Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.Career
Waldrop received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan in 1964 and four years later began teaching at Brown University.
With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and is professor emeritus at Brown. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres.Awards and honors
- Chevalier des arts et des lettres by the French government.
- 2009 National Book Award for Poetry for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.
- 2014 Best Translated Book Award, Poetry, one of two runners-up for Four Elemental Bodies by Claude Royet-Journoud, translated from the French.
Selected works
Poetry
