Descripción
Poetry. Waldrep's seventh collection begins where his prior collection, FEAST GENTLY, left off: This / is how the witness ends: touch, withdraw; touch again, according to the opening poem in THE EARLIEST WITNESSES. If these are poems of witness, then they are also testators to the craft of seeing: eye-proofs of an epiphenomenal world. Can you see this, the ophthalmologist in A Mystic's Guide to Arches asks over and over again. Sight becomes both the facilitator and impediment of desire, in collusion with language itself. She said, When you say pear, I see p-e-a-r for a second before I see, in my mind's eye, a pear, Waldrep carefully records in West Stow Orchard Poem (II)]. The desire-poems in THE EARLIEST WITNESSES want the thing itself, its image of the mind, and the language that transmutes both thing and image into song.
Author: Gc Waldrep
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 01/01/2021
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d
ISBN13: 9781946482488
ISBN10: 194648248X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Love & Erotica
- Poetry | American | General