Goldbeater's Skin

by G. C. Waldrep

University Press of Colorado, 2003
Paper: 978-1-885635-06-8
Library of Congress Classification PS3623.A358G65 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Winner of the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

G. C. Waldrep's poetry has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, the Gettysburg Review, Poetry, and Tin House. He received a BA from Harvard and a PhD in American History from Duke University. He has had residencies in poetry at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Goldbeater's Skin is his first collection.

REVIEWS

"The poetry of G. C. Waldrep is a prolific liturgy, intense and conversational by turns. And the turning is telling; it comes round right. Bright idioms become bright branches, and the branches become the further architecture of Word. Christopher Smart and Hart Crane applaud these poems in Heaven because the Earth of these poems is true."

—Donald Revell, final judge and author of My Mojave, Arcady, and There Are Three

"Goldbeater's Skin is a gorgeous debut; reading these poems renews our recognition of the world's precarious splendor."

—Arthur Sze, author of The Redshifting Web and Archipelago

"In Goldbeater's Skin, as in the work of Wallace Stevens, the reader encounters a fiercely intelligent and fiercely playful interiority that is astonishing. Displaying a brawny, hierophantic lexical range with breathtaking swerves into a warm vernacular, G. C. Waldrep's poetry is made even rarer in its accomplishment by a lapidary tenderness."

—Dean Young, author of Skid, First Course in Turbulence, and Strike Anywhere

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedications
Acknowledgments
Fatal Exception
I	
Against the Madness of Crowds
Syrinx
[in the barrow of a forgotten king]
Blink
Varieties of Religious Experience
Saccade
Tropic of Cancer
Heave-Ho:
A Door in the Hive
Jack Descending
Hornpipe for Saints
Pharisee's Lament
In the Gate of Samaria
Nine West Clay
Confessions of the Mouse King
Processioning
Apocatastasis
Prophecy: Visitation
Deliverance
II	
The Lone Amishman to the Missionary Woman
[after the murder]
Vertigo
Mucking Out
Noli Me Tangere
Goldbeater's Skin
Luminous Bodies
Canticle for the Second Sunday in Lent
What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem
III
What Goes Up
Qualia
Wedge
Valentine for Myself at 31
Sanctuary
Elberta
Vendible Aesthetic
The Tree and the Child
Errantry
Passion: Paternity Test
Circus Maximus
Palinode: Cotton Mather
Synderesis
Preen
Animal Magnetism
Columbus Circle
Zeugma
In Defense of St. Patrick	
All Night, All Night, All Morning
Blazon
Notes




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