Two Part Invention

by Keith Waldrop

Poetry. A fourteen-section poem of landscape and love. "almost enclosed/ water, sea, lake, domes and/ palaces, a different smell, in-/ definite reach// reach of the greater/ body, smooth/ surface and/ sweep of the wind// apparent color lying, some/ likeness in light/ deepened, darkened, silk-/ tissued, thin/ reflection, surface of/ common observation." Keith Waldrop teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. His many books available from SPD include LIGHT WHILE THERE IS LIGHT (Sun & Moon) and several recent chapbooks.

18 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

American poet and academic, author of numerous books of poetry and prose, translator of the works of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, Edmond Jabès, Charles Baudelaire, and others.