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POETRY, and
Tin House; she has been awarded the Barbara Bradley Award, the Yeats Poetry Prize, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, the Betty Gabehart Prize, and the 49th Parallel Award. She is currently a faculty member in the MFA program at New England College. Today she takes a moment to talk with us about her new book, which challenges existing notions about the love poem, for “but what are poems for if not to express extremity? If not to both rage about and celebrate obsessions?”
Rosebud Ben-Oni: I
really felt what you had to say about love in your opening poem “Agape Feast,” especially the last lines: “Its mercy is electric, it is storied, it is rank./ Its mercy is a tablet dissolved in a glass,/more invisible the more you drink.” Can you tell us how this breathtaking poem (which is a gift to read aloud!) sets the stage, so to say, for the rest of the poems in
Tulepo Press, 2021
Hailed by his contemporaries as a visionary poet, G.C. Waldrep aptly presents an intimate study of the literal, physical, and spiritual act and implications of seeing. His seventh book,
The Earliest Witnesses (Tupelo Press, 2021), bridges the divide between the sacred and the profane, as he locates the former in the everyday landscape and language of the latter. His speaker tours a mattress factory museum, countless architectural ruins, and cathedrals.; he alludes to the Bible, Hildegard von Bingen, and Agatha Christie. He takes stock of the witnesses about him–historic sites of saints, an owl perched above the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, shadows, even the ghosts he doesn’t believe in (“[Llandeilo Churchyard (1)]). Echoing Eliot’s Prufrock, who tenderly considers his place and movements, daring to disturb the universe, so does Waldrep’s speaker assume passive agency in quiet contemplation, careful study, waiting for someone else to start the music o
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