“Here is a gorgeous book of the most subtle and vivid mysteries, weighted with earth and time.”—Li-Young LeeWhile hiking the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco, G.C. Waldrep became fascinated with
Poetry. In the flowing SUSQUEHANNA, language has been re-immersed in its origins. It is a coursing where "this human industry / compressed into earth- / rudders second emptiness / braids a fist." SUSQ
In this book-length poem, G.C. Waldrep addresses matters as diverse as Mormonism, cymatics, race, Dolly the cloned sheep, and his own life and faith. Drafted over twelve trance-like days while in resi
Poetry. In his most autobiographically transparent (and most comical) collection to date, Waldrep explores the intersections between body and spirit, faith and action. These are lyrics of incarnation,
Your Father on the Train of Ghosts is one of the most extensive collaborations in American poetry. Over the course of a year, acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher wrote poems back and forth,
Literary Nonfiction. Music. Poetry. Art. Derived in form from Aristotle's "Minor Work" of the same title, this variation of ON MARVELLOUS THINGS HEARD explores a range of literary appropriations of mu
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Jewish Studies. If there is a country named Celania—as Julia Kristeva once proposed—its holy texts are filled with doubt, and they overcome this doubt almost successf
