Disclamor by Gc Waldrep

Disclamor by Gc Waldrep

"Here is a gorgeous book of the most subtle and vivid mysteries, weighted with earth and time."--Li-Young Lee

While 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.

Poems from Disclamor have garnered G.C. Waldrep the 2006 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2007 NEA Fellowship. He holds a PhD in American history from Duke University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

G.C. Waldrep has four collections of poetry to his credit, the most recent of which being Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011), a collaboration with John Gallagher. HOMAGE TO PAUL CELAN (Marick Press, 2012) and THE ARCADIA PROJECT: NORTH AMERICAN POSTMODERN PASTORAL (Ahsahta Press, 2012) were co-edited by him and Ilya Kaminsky. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship as well as the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry. He teaches at Bucknell University, edits the magazine West Branch, and serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review. He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.