G C Waldrep's poetry has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, the Gettysburg Review, Poetry, and Tin House. He received a BA from Harvard and a PhD in American History from Duke University. He has had residencies in poetry at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Goldbeater's Skin is his first collection.
"Goldbeater's Skin is a gorgeous debut; reading these poems renews
our recognition of the world's precarious splendor." --Arthur Sze,
author of The Redshifting Web and Archipelago "In Goldbeater's
Skin, as in the work of Wallace Stevens, the reader encounters a
fiercely intelligent and fiercely playful interiority that is
astonishing. Displaying a brawny, hierophantic lexical range with
breathtaking swerves into a warm vernacular, G. C. Waldrep's poetry
is made even rarer in its accomplishment by a lapidary
tenderness."--Dean Young, author of Skid, First Course in
Turbulence, and Strike Anywhere
"The poetry of G. C. Waldrep is a prolific liturgy, intense and
conversational by turns. And the turning is telling; it comes round
right. Bright idioms become bright branches, and the branches
become the further architecture of Word. Christopher Smart and Hart
Crane applaud these poems in Heaven because the Earth of these
poems is true." --Donald Revell, final judge and author of My
Mojave, Arcady, and There Are Three
""Goldbeater's Skin" is a gorgeous debut; reading these poems
renews our recognition of the world's precarious splendor." Arthur
Sze, author of "The Redshifting Web" and "Archipelago" "In
"Goldbeater's Skin, " as in the work of Wallace Stevens, the reader
encounters a fiercely intelligent and fiercely playful interiority
that is astonishing. Displaying a brawny, hierophantic lexical
range with breathtaking swerves into a warm vernacular, G. C.
Waldrep's poetry is made even rarer in its accomplishment by a
lapidary tenderness." Dean Young, author of "Skid, First Course in
Turbulence, " and "Strike Anywhere"
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