RI poet honored with national book award
The Associated Press
Published: November 19, 2009
Published: November 19, 2009
PROVIDENCE—A Providence poet has won a National Book Award for his work.
Keith Waldrop, who lives in Providence and has taught at Brown for more than 40 years, was recognized at a New York awards ceremony Wednesday night for his “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.“ The phone rang unanswered at his office Thursday.
Other winners include Colum McCann for fiction and T.J. Stiles for his biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Waldrop has published more than a dozen books each of his own poetry and of translations. His first book in 1968 was shortlisted for a National Book Award.
His latest book presents three linked poem sequences.
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