Contributors

Keith Waldrop

Contributor History

Six Studies for Hegel’s Family, Conjunctions:6
Love in the Ruins, Conjunctions:8
Puberty, Conjunctions:10
One Step Enough, Conjunctions:11
Variations on a Paraphrase, Conjunctions:15
Three Poems, Conjunctions:17
From Light While There Is Light: An American History, Conjunctions:20
A Vanity, Conjunctions:35
From Flowers of Evil, Conjunctions:38
Three or Four Poems, Conjunctions:47
Always in Arises , Conjunctions:59
Two Unpublished Poems — In Memoriam (1932–2023), Online 08-09-2023

Biography

Photo by Naomi Yang

A longtime contributor to Conjunctions, Keith Waldrop was an internationally-celebrated poet, translator, and editor. Waldrop published over a dozen books of poetry, including the 2009 National Book Award–winning Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press), and two books of prose, Hegel’s Family (Station Hill) and Light While There is Light (Sun & Moon). He received France's distinguished “Chevalier des arts et des lettres” for his translations of French literature, which included works by Charles Baudelaire and Claude Royet-Journoud, among many others. With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edited the innovative Burning Deck Press for over 50 years.

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In Print

Conjunctions:82

Works & Days

Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

Online

Rendered

by Julia Juster

July 24, 2024

On Valentine’s Day, Milo strings a horse-shaped piñata from the ceiling light in our living room, and I walk by twice before noticing it swaying there. The light is off and the horse is dark, but I am not unobservant. Part of me accepts a horse swinging in my periphery. Milo makes up a real reason for me to go back down the hall and, when I look for the space heater, I find the horse hanging. He dangles from a yellow jump rope, and I am so happy to see him in my house. Milo hands me the stick. “You need,” he says, “to kill a horse.”

Into the Arms of the Man on the Moon

by Yannick Murphy

July 17, 2024

There is the man on the moon. Go to him. Get bread from him, drink his water. Take your dog, Blue to him. Take your mother. She is skiing outside around the house. Stop her, tell her that Blue is going also. Take the gander, Henry. He is short in the legs. Leave me Iris. I have seen her eat feed in a pattern.

Permanent Collection

by Joe Sacksteder

July 10, 2024

Marcie decided on Vertigo because she’d recently encountered several texts in quick succession that made extensive reference to it: Chris Marker’s time travel film told in still images, La Jetée, Terry Gilliam’s unlikely Hollywood adaptation, 12 Monkeys, and a story by Bennett Sims called “White Dialogues” about an embittered academic seething in an auditorium during a lecture being given by the hot new thing in Hitchcock studies. The coincidence made her feel involved with the film, and vice versa, in a way that evades more specific description.