Background
Waldrop, Bernard Keith was born on December 11, 1932 in Emporia, Kansas, United States. Son of Arthur and Opal Irene (Mohler) Waldrop.
(Poetry. Written in alternating sections of poetry and sho...)
Poetry. Written in alternating sections of poetry and short prose pieces, THE LOCALITY PRINCIPLE is, on one level, a perceptive and often wryly humorous account of a traveler's confusion and dislocation. In London, a narrator, presumably the author, is living on a street named after a nonexistent park, next to a garden he can see from a window but has no access to--a garden tended by a bizarrely ineffectual group of men and women who could be gardeners or possibly inmates from a local asylum. But Waldrop's is role as a displaced observer also provides the opportunity for a series of reflections on deeper subjects, such as concept of the soul, and the fact of his own mortality. Overseeing it all is the unforgettable, impassive Pee-Paws, a resident cat that spends night after night staring into the blazing fireplace: "Her response to the fire, I come to realize, is more complete than mine...to her it is obviously a source of the most profound feelings, feelings I can only guess at...mystical feelings." It is those "mystical feelings" that indicate the terrain which the traveler in The Locality Principle must finally navigate and which bring the book to its subtle but lovely conclusion.
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One of the unheralded masterpieces of twentieth-century American fiction, Light While There Is Light is acclaimed poet Keith Waldrop’s autobiographical novel about the myriad ghosts left behind by his family. Born to a deeply religious mother, the narrator and his siblings are led across the US as she searches for the “right” religious sect―a trip that ends with her speaking in tongues, and finally her total isolation. But no synopsis can do justice to the beauty of Keith Waldrop’s measured, wise, and unembroidered prose, illuminating the fear, madness, and destruction within hearth and home―though never repudiating his love for same. In a tradition that stretches back through Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner to Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, Keith Waldrop and Light While There Is Light are American treasures.
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Waldrop, Bernard Keith was born on December 11, 1932 in Emporia, Kansas, United States. Son of Arthur and Opal Irene (Mohler) Waldrop.
Bachelor of Arts, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, 1955; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1964.
Member faculty, Brown U., Providence, 1968; Professor of English, Brown U., Providence, since 1980. Editor Burning Deck Press, Providence, since 1961.
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(Poetry. Written in alternating sections of poetry and sho...)
Served with United States Army, 1953-1955. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center.
Married Rosmarie Sebald, January 22, 1959.