Gap Gardening: Selected Poems - Rosmarie Waldrop Michael Snow language and history

language and history

In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony

forming an investigation of one city and its peripheries in the throes of economic and social transformation

amongst the most famous are the Tenrai-an tea garden (1969) and the Matsuo Taisha garden (1975)

Karl Holmqvist

Gap Gardening: Selected Poems - Rosmarie Waldrop Michael Snow language and historyRosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening "spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems, to focusing on the sentence and its boundaries, my increasing reliance on collage and source texts as a way of engaging with other voices, of being in dialogue."Gap Gardening also traces Waldrop's growing sense of writing as an