The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion]

Keith Waldrop21 April 09

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The Luxury of Hesitation

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things forgottenI could

burn in hell forever

set the glassdown, ouremotion's moment

eyes vs sunlightContinue……

how removedhere, fromhere

towards the unfamiliar and

frankincense forestsagainst the discerning light

everybodysudden

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Continue……

The Luxury of Hesitation

frightful indeed, the sound oftraffic andno appetite

the crowd

I would like to bebeautiful whenwritten

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The Luxury of Hesitation

Keith WaldropKeith Waldrop was born in Kansas and served in the United States military. In 1954, he met his wife, the poet and translator Rosmarie Waldrop while stationed in Kitzingen, Germany. He studied at Aix-Marseille and Michigan Universities, earning a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1964. His first book of poetry, A Windmill Near Calvary (University of Michigan, 1968), was nominated for a National Book Award.

He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Several Gravities (Siglio, 2009), a collection of collages; Transcendental Studies (UC Press, 2009), a trilogy of collage poems; and a translation of Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen (Wesleyan, 2009). His other work includes The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon: With Sample Poems (Omnidawn, 2004). His other collections of poetry include The House Seen from Nowhere (2003), Haunt (2000), Well Well Reality (1998, with Rosmarie Waldrop), and the trilogy The Locality Principle (1995), The Silhouette of the Bridge, which won the Americas Award for Poetry (1997), and Semiramis, If I Remember (2001).

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