Over nearly four decades, National Book Award winner Keith Waldrop has amassed a huge body of lyrical collage work alongside his acclaimed oeuvre of poetry, fiction and translation. Waldrop's collages express quiet tensions and ghostly impressions in a few snips of the scissors. Several Gravities presents a selection of these radiant collages and includes a previously unpublished serial poem and essay by Waldrop.

Poetry. Art. For nearly four decades, Keith Waldrop has been creating a lyrical body of visual art that mirrors his extraordinary oeuvre of poetry, fiction, and translation. Like his collage poems, Waldrop's visual works are enveloped in quiet tensions and ghosted impressions. They construct densities of atmosphere and architecture, drift and dream. Rich in textual and visual play, romantic and contradictory in their shapings, his collages use traces of memory to gesture toward the absent and the invisible. Edited and with an essay by Robert Seydel, SEVERAL GRAVITIES features a substantial selection of these radiant collages in a full color, hardcover edition, and includes a previously unpublished serial poem as well as an essay by Waldrop that enunciates the relationship between this author's distinctive visual and poetic practices.