Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) is an American poet, translator, and academic. He has authored numerous books of poetry and prose and translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. One such translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (2006). He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy. Personal life Waldrop started his education at Kansas State Teachers College, studying to be a doctor. However, in 1953, he was drafted into the United States Army and stationed in West Germany, where he met his wife Rosmarie Waldrop. Career Waldrop received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan in 1964 and four years later began teaching at Brown University (1968). With Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and became a professor emeritus at Brown in 2011. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres. Awards and honors Chevalier des arts et des lettres by the French government. 2009 National Book Award for Poetry for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy. 2014 Best Translated Book Award, Poetry, one of two runners-up for Four Elemental Bodies by Claude Royet-Journoud, translated from the French. Selected works Poetry A Windmill Near Calvary (University of Michigan Press, 1968) The Garden of Effort (Burning Deck, 1975) Shipwreck In Haven (Awede, 1989) The Opposite of Letting the Mind Wander (Lost Roads, 1990) The Locality Principle (Avec, 1995) Analogies of Escape (Burning Deck, 1997) The Silhouette of the Bridge (Memory Stand-Ins) (Avec, 1997) Stone Angels (Instress, 1997) Well Well Reality (Collaborations with Rosmarie Waldrop) (The Post-Apollo Press, 1998) Haunt (Instance, 2000) Semiramis If I Remember (Avec, 2001) The House Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press, 2003) The Real Subject: queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems (Omnidawn Publishing, 2005) Several Gravities (Siglio, 2009) Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press, 2009) —winner of the National Book Award The Space of Half an Hour (Burning Deck, 1983) The Not Forever [Inventions] (Omnidawn, 2013) Selected Poems (Omnidawn, 2016) Prose Hegel's Family (Station Hill, 1989) Light While There is Light (Sun & Moon, 1993) Visual Art Several Gravities (Siglio Press, 2009) Translations The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (Wesleyan, 2006) Figured Image by Anne-Marie Albiach (The Post-Apollo Press, 2006) The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the