Reviews

His poems explore the desire for something beyond the visible, and confront the nothing that is there. But that’s not just a journey of despair; it’s also a recovery of wonder before the actual world—each grain of sand, and the relations between grains.
Ben Lerner, Paris Review

More than any impulse toward beauty or craft, though, the desire to reach toward resolution feels like the engine of Waldrop's poetry. Rational, evidentiary, essayistic philosophical arguments so strongly underpin the work at every turn that the very existence of these poems seems to critique the limits of logical discourse. . . . Waldrop yearns . . . for "a phenomenology of ignorance" and "a fine irrational intelligence," searching for qualities that might allow us fallen creatures to transcend "the broken / symmetry we wander through.”
Daniel E. Pritchard, Medium

From the beginning, his poetry is interested in the unknown and unknowable, an active seeking that nonetheless preserves elusion. The only thing that is certain for Waldrop is that things won’t stay the same.
Sean Pears, Colorado Review

Waldrop’s poetry is grounded against the constantly shifting geometries of an oblique world by quiet traces of memory, ghosts, and a sensitive consciousness. Deploying a great range of formal devices and rhetorical tactics that reflect his work as a translator, teacher, and publisher, Waldrop . . . has established his own brand of semitranscendental, ecologically and psychologically astute poetics while displaying a perspective, sense of humor, phrasing, persona, and array of mannerisms that are distinctly American.
Publishers Weekly

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