Keith Waldrop’s 2009 books are: Transcendental Studies (poetry, Univ. of California Press, National Book Award 09); Several Gravities (collages, Siglio Press); and a translation of Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen: little poems in prose (Wesleyan Univ. Press). He has also translated Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil as well as books by contemporary French poets Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Paol Keineg, Dominique Fourcade, Pascal Quignard, and Jean Grosjean. Other books of poems include The Real Subject (Omnidawn) and the trilogy: The Locality Principle, The Silhouette of the Bridge (America Award, 1997) and Semiramis, If I Remember (Avec Books). He was born in Emporia, Kansas in 1932 and now lives in Providence, RI where he teaches at Brown University and, with Rosmarie Waldrop, edits the small press Burning Deck.