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Waldrop, Keith

LC control no.n 50020091
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3573.A423
Personal name headingWaldrop, Keith
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Variant(s)Waldrop, Bernard Keith
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedProvidence (R.I.)
Birth date1932-12-11
Death date2023-07-27
Place of birthEmporia (Kan.)
Place of deathProvidence (R.I.)
Field of activityPoetry Comparative literature French literature--Translations into English
AffiliationUniversity of Michigan Burning Deck (Firm)
Brown University
Profession or occupationPoets College teachers Translators
Found inHis A windmill near Calvary, 1968.
A Century in two decades, c1982: CIP t.p. (Keith Waldrop) data sheet (12/11/32)
Haunt, c2000: t.p. (Keith Waldrop) p. 96 (lives in Providence, R.I.; teaches at Brown Univ. and edits Burning Deck Press)
Burning Deck, spring 1963 issue: t.p. (Bernard Waldrop)
OCLC, Nov. 28, 2007 (hdg: Waldrop, Keith; Waldrop, Bernard Keith, 1932-; usage: Keith Waldrop; Bernard Waldrop)
Poetry Foundation WWW page, May 5, 2015 (Keith Waldrop; author of over a dozen books of poetry, prose, and translations; with Rosmarie Waldrop, co-edits Burning Deck Press; born in Emporia, Kansas in 1932; enrolled in the pre-med program at Kansas State Teacher's College, but his studies were interrupted in 1953 when he was drafted into the US Army; while stationed in Germany during the 1950s, Waldrop met his wife, the poet and translator Rosmarie Waldrop; earned a PhD in comparative literature in 1964 from the University of Michigan and has taught at Brown University since 1968)
Washington post WWW site, viewed August 15, 2023 (in obituary dated August 15, 2023: Keith Waldrop, a prominent avant-garde poet, small press publisher and translator, died July 27 near his home in Providence, R.I. He was 90. Bernard Keith Waldrop was born in Emporia, Kan., on Dec. 11, 1932)
Associated languageeng