Description
The conclusion of G. C. Waldrep's trilogy exploring chronic illness. In The Opening Ritual, G. C. Waldrep contends with the failure of the body, the irreducible body, in the light of faith. What can or should "healing" mean when it can't ever mean "wholeness" again? And what kind of architecture is "mercy" when we live inside damage? These are poems that take both the material and the spiritual seriously, that cast their unsparing glances toward "All that is not / & could never be a parable." The collection concludes with a sequence of truly grand meditations on spiritual consciousness--in one the poet notes how, in the stillness of contemplation, the world begins to hum and resound with music. The Opening Ritual attends to and fashions its song from that music.
Author: G. C. Waldrep
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 11/01/2024
Pages: 82
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.27h x 6.77w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9781961209145
ISBN10: 1961209144
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Religious
- Poetry | American | General
Author: G. C. Waldrep
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 11/01/2024
Pages: 82
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.27h x 6.77w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9781961209145
ISBN10: 1961209144
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Religious
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
G.C. Waldrep is the author of several previous full-length collections of poetry, including feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), which won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the long poem Testament (BOA Editions, 2015). Waldrep's work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Paris Review, APR, New England Review, New American Writing, Harper's, Tin House, Verse, and many other journals in the USA and abroad, as well as twice in The Best American Poetry and in the second edition of Norton's Postmodern American Poetry.