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And we can, seeing it more fully each time we re-read the poem and the separate things configure into a single, powerful seeing. Language obscures - until it releases what it names to the senses.  The Earliest Witnesses is G.C. 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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. The status of witnesses is never constant and never settled in this book: sometimes, witnesses “foster,” “touch,” and “stain” the places they inhabit; other times, they befriend, or document, or think. Sometimes, witnesses forget themselves-in questions of blame and responsibility-and sometimes they feel forgotten and unknown. If these are poems of witness, then they are also testators to the craft of seeing: “Can you see this,” the ophthalmologist in “A Mystic’s Guide to Arches” asks over and over again. Here, sight facilitates and impedes desire; it colludes 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49573467914513,"sku":"GOR013517481","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50402522366225,"sku":"CIN194648248XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50993641652497,"sku":"NIN9781946482488","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51418209452305,"sku":"CIN194648248XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/194648248X.jpg?v=1750836308"},{"product_id":"archicembalo-book-gc-waldrep-9781932195743","title":"ARCHICEMBALO","description":"Poetry. G.C. Waldrep, always a startlingly original, appealing poetic voice, uses music theory and history to explore the interweaving of language and music. In fiercely intelligent, passionate verse, the poet seeks the delicate point between the voice of a singer (music) and that of a poet (language). An archicembalo (pronounced ark-e-Chem-ball-o) was a complex sixteenth-century instrument, a successor to the harpsichord. The book is structured after a gamut, a nineteenth-century musical primer. Originally a single note on the scale, a gamut later came to mean a whole range-as in a singer or actor's ability to cover the whole gamut.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49748675133713,"sku":"CIN1932195742G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50960857071889,"sku":"CIN1932195742VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51201521647889,"sku":"NGR9781932195743","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1932195742.jpg?v=1751186639"},{"product_id":"disclamor-book-gc-waldrep-9781929918973","title":"Disclamor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Here is a gorgeous book of the most subtle and vivid mysteries, weighted with earth and time.\"--Li-Young Lee\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile hiking the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco, G.C. Waldrep became fascinated with how the military installations there impact the landscape's spectacular natural beauty. Thus, Waldrep produced \"The Batteries,\" a sequence of nine poems that probe the interrelationship between beauty and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoems from \u003ci\u003eDisclamor\u003c\/i\u003e have garnered \u003cb\u003eG.C. Waldrep\u003c\/b\u003e the 2006 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2007 NEA Fellowship. 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In documenting the high stakes of labor protest, Waldrep shows how the erosion or outright destruction of community undermined the ability of workers to respond to the assaults of employers overwhelmingly supported by government agencies and agents.   Beautifully written and persuasively argued, Southern Workers and the Search for Community opens the gates of southern company towns to illuminate the human issues behind the mechanics of labor.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346285564177,"sku":"CIN0252069013G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53078550184209,"sku":"NGR9780252069017","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0252069013.jpg?v=1763475425"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-g-c-waldrep.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}