Ceci N'Est Pas Keith/Ceci N'Est Pas Rosmarie

Two poets co-founders of Burning Deck press, professors in Brown University's writing program, prolific translators (and spouses to boot) Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop tell the stories of their writing lives in Ceci n'est pas Keith Ceci n'est pas Rosmarie. Keith: ""With neither great and wonderful actions nor any sense of glory to report, I write this or maybe it's these against decay of remembrance."" Rosmarie: ""Turning a `Noh' mask slightly downward is known as `clouding' because the mask takes on a melancholy aspect. `Light cannot be wrong'.... Still, I circle like a moth until the blinding splendor will exceed the anxiety of wings."" Readers will disagree with the first statement, and find the second, along with the book that contains it, luminous. (Apr.)