Rosmarie Waldrop

Nov 4, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Rosmarie Waldrop |Catherine Corman |Keith J. Holyoak |Paul Stephens

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Influences? Every book I’ve read. Other influences? Yes. For instance, music, printing, and less tangible silences. In fall 1954 I started commuting (a half-hour train ride) to the University of Würzburg. I voraciously gobbled as many lectures in literature, art history, and musicology as I could fit into the week — and promptly got indigestion.

Jun 30, 2023 | poets.org | Rosmarie Waldrop |Anne Carson |Ed Lee

1 Your singular, my love. Rehearses its absence. You see light, hear noise, feel the warmth of the sun. Do you connect it into “day”? You move through shards and splinters. Toward. You are no longer possible. 2 Because, my love. The night such a vast space. And you a bird in oblique flight. I try to hold on. To moments still ours. Even as they slip away. Each word of yours, each gesture, gently. Once upon no more. Do not fall again. Not even like an apple in autumn. 3 Because we say: we.