Rosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening "spans forty years of exploring
the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me
even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to
prose poems, to focusing on the sentence and its boundaries, my
increasing reliance on collage and source texts as a way of engaging
with other voices, of being in dialogue."
Gap Gardening also traces Waldrop's growing sense of writing as an
exploration of what happens in between. Between words, sentences,
people, cultures. Between fragment and flow, thinking and feeling, mind
and body. For the first time, we have a complete and clear view of the
work of a great and inquiring, brave and indispensable poet.