{"product_id":"the-opening-ritual-9781961209145","title":"The Opening Ritual","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe conclusion of G. C. Waldrep's trilogy exploring chronic illness.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Opening Ritual\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \/ \u0026amp; could never be a parable.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ci\u003e The Opening Ritual\u003c\/i\u003e attends to and fashions its song from that music. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3319827\"\u003eG. C. Waldrep\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tupelo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 6.77w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781961209145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1961209144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE003000\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Religious\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eG.C. Waldrep\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several previous full-length collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003efeast gently\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo, 2018), which won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the long poem \u003ci\u003eTestament\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions, 2015). Waldrep's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAPR\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew American Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVerse\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other journals in the USA and abroad, as well as twice in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and in the second edition of Norton's \u003ci\u003ePostmodern American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He has received prizes from the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets as well as the Colorado Prize, the Dorset Prize, the Campbell Corner Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Writing, and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pa., where he teaches at Bucknell University and edits the journal West Branch.","brand":"Tupelo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48455183925485,"sku":"9781961209145","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_cdc6005f-8c54-4a3f-973f-fa60b44ef9a6.jpg?v=1753516219","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-opening-ritual-9781961209145","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}