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February 28, 2006 07:30 PM
G. C. WALDREP
G.C. Waldrep's very well received first collection of poetry,
Goldbeater's Skin ($16.95 Center for Literary Publishing), offers
intelligent poetry that considers the distance between fact and language
from multiple angles. Sometimes Mr. Waldrep's approach is rational ("There's
a mathematical moment / when it's possible to know / exactly what's
happened") and at other times metaphysical ("it's worth imagining something
bigger's out there / if only to feel gravity's specific pull. Call it
prayer. Call it trademark, / colophon, station identification projected into
eternity"). Wit and humor, and a rich vocabulary, move these poems through t
heir investigations of the transmutable world. We will soon receive copies
of Mr. Waldrep's new chapbook, The Batteries ($8 New Michigan), a
collection of poems concerning abandoned military fortifications on the
Marin Headlands of California.
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