Great Regulars: The jury members--Mei-mei Berssenbrugge,

A. Van Jordan, Cole Swensen and Kevin Young--provided fine food for thought concerning the work's satisfying contents: "If transcendental immanence were possible, it would be because Keith Waldrop had invented it; he's the only one who could; and, in Transcendental Studies, he has. These three linked series achieve a fusion arcing from the Romantic to the Post-modern that demonstrates language's capacity to go to extremes--and to haul daily lived experience right along with it: life imitates language, and when language becomes these poems, life itself gets more various, more volatile, more vital."

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Prize guys

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