Abstract: Rosmarie Waldrop’s Poetry: Embodied Thought and Linguistic Gap
--Deborah Meadows
This paper enacts a beginning of a reading of Rosmarie Waldrop’s recent
collection Blindsight, and in the spirit of her compositional techniques on
the conditions of legibility, this paper necessarily is a mosaic of references
rather than a traditional interpretation or disputation that seeks to
substantiate a monolithic thesis. As a teacher and poet, I hope to enact a
field of references that speak across to each other, that may generate lively
interaction and “making-use” of the texts, and that as a sympathetic reading,
I express how important I’ve found Waldrop’s work.