Keith Waldrop: Several Gravities
...And in April, Siglio Press, the indie in Los Angeles that last year published Joe Brainard'sThe Nancy Book, released the equally beautiful and exquisitely designedSeveral Gravities, a collection of Waldrop's collages. In an essay in that book, the volume's editor, Robert Seydel, describes the seventy-seven-year-old artist-poet-publisher-translator as:that rare figure, a poet's poet, inherently graceful in his utterance, in both poetry and prose, and somewhat hermetic, sage-like, very beautiful in his hesitations and quiet delivery of both self and poem.The kind of writer, in other words, who gets swept along in a current of popular interest and whose work, thankfully, fulfills the promise. --Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers