Keith Waldrop is author of numerous collections of poetry and is the translator of The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabes, as well as works by Claude Royet Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach and Jean Grosjean. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and DAAD (Berlin).

His titles include Hegel's Family, The Opposite of Letting theMind Wander:  Selected Poems and a Few Songs, Shipwreck in Haven, TheBalustrade, Light While There is Light, The Locality Principle, Analogies of Escape and Haunt.