Description: A philosophical tour de force melding astrophysics and grief by the American maestra of the prose poem
Brief description: Rosmarie Waldrop, born in Germany in 1935, is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and a noted translator of French and German poetry. Her most recent books are The Nick of Time, Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize), and Driven to Abstraction.
Review Quotes: The Nick of Time...contains some of the finest writing of her distinguished career. [T]emporality, always an underlying concern of her work, moves unmistakably to the fore.--Ryan Ruby "Poetry Foundation"