· 2009
From the jungles of Rwanda to the ruined streets of Somalia to the craggy mountains of Afghanistan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers this intimate portrayal of war from the front lines.
· 2014
This is the first volume of a complete collection of Flash Poems by Keith N. Waldrop. This volume is the collection of poems for the past forty years. Keith only gets Flash Poems, whereby the entire work appears in his mind in a flash. He then has to write them down quickly. Keith has released in different works but for the first time here is a complete single volume.
· 2014
This is the first full publication from Pillbug of Keith N. Waldrop's four previously published works. This volume contains In The Rhythm Of The Strea, In The Eyes of The Gulf, Complete Works, and Favorite Flash Poems. This is a one stop place for the reading looking for all of the currently published poems of Keith N. Waldrop.
· 2002
Poetry. In Keith Waldrop's THE HOUSE SEEN FROM NOWHERE, we are invited into a meditational drift that explores the 'tense emptiness' of being . The construction of all that surrounds us, the carpentry, wavers between order and the instability of order, is manifest in syntax and etymology. In this house, which is all things-body, fortress, residence, logic, language, mortality--we find mirrors, echoes, and spirits: "the figures light / delineates not / the light itself." Where we might use Zeno's Paradox to understand the relation between the knower and the known, it is in Keith's house that we find the paradox of "empty distinctions," a tension between asymmetrical opposites. The house exists "not to inclose but / to include // without redemption." "In his 16th collection, dedicated to the Oulipo-associated writer Jacques Roubaud, Waldrop collects seven serial poems, meditations on being and nothingness, in the persona of a philosopher in his twilight years. Not wishing to recapitulate the past, and seeing only forgetting and death in the future, the poems focus almost preternaturally on the still point of the present, so that 'From one window to the next the seasons turn round--spring flowers in the front yard while the kitchen gives onto ice and snow.' Waldrop's lines are as clean as Williams's, if more Euclidean. And despite his explorations of linguistic logic, it is the things of this world, like a red traffic light, that serve as beacons of faith and joy. There is no irritable reaching after mystical lyricism in this Kansas-born student of French poetry, just the austere eloquence inherent in the search for a stable metaphysics that could occupy the place of spiritual solace, if not (as it happens, the last word in the book) redemption."--Publisher's Weekly "Waldrop's brilliance of wit and device, the serenity of judgement, the articulation of research and reflection... all these delight, and convince anew that poetry is a vast, holistic science, a science of sciences, from which an adept like Waldrop brings results we've never heard before."--Robert Kelly
· 2000
Poetry. Keith Waldrop's new book continues and deepens the examination of meaning, connotation, denotation, and meaninglessness implicit in his work. Many titles by this major poet, translator, and editor continue to be available from SPD: ANALOGIES OF ESCAPE, LOCALITY PRINCIPLE, THE EIGHTH DAY, and others. Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop edit Burning Deck in Providence, Rhode Island.
· 2013
One of the unheralded masterpieces of twentieth-century American fiction, Light While There Is Light is acclaimed poet Keith Waldrop's autobiographical novel about the myriad ghosts left behind by his family Born to a deeply religious mother, the narrator and his siblings are led across the US as she searches for the "right" religious sect—a trip that ends with her speaking in tongues, and finally her total isolation. But no synopsis can do justice to the beauty of Keith Waldrop's measured, wise, and unembroidered prose, illuminating the fear, madness, and destruction within hearth and home—though never repudiating his love for same. In a tradition that stretches back through Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner to Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, Keith Waldrop and Light While There Is Light are American treasures.
· 2004
The Real Subject is not exactly a novel and not really a poem, though it contains some verses and is not without characters. Jacob Delafon, whose musings are here presented, is a man late in life who has gotten around-at least in his own mind-read a great deal, unsystematically, thought (with even less system) about what he has seen, heard, what he comes up against. He is, in fact, a unique geezer, whose trains of thought seem often on tracks without station or schedule. To move one to another of Jacob Delfon's turns of mind and twisted meditations requires, not fast, but careful footwork. There is no set path. The interest is in the steps.
· 2014
This is another exciting novel from Keith N. Waldrop. He ask the question, if you could take a 15 second trip and find out if your belief system was correct or not, would you take the trip. Join Bruce, Waylon, and Lisa as they attempt to recover the Shroud of Turin that was stolen by evil forces from the Chapel in Turin Italy. The three heroes chase the garment across the world in order to test the theory if it has special powers. Everyone along the way has to ask themselves the same question; do they need proof or do they have enough faith.
· 2014
This is the first novel from Keith N. Waldrop. The story of Father Timothy MacKeifer, the newest Priest that discovers he is chosen to bring back the Church after WWIII. Join his team as they have to get from New Houston to Edinburgh Scotland to launch the new Church. They have to battle the new Government, drones, armies, navies, and evil. See the miracles of Butterflies, and Hummingbirds.