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The Earliest Witnesses

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Description for The Earliest Witnesses Paperback.
An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. This is how the witness ends: touch, withdraw; touch again. 'American Goshawk', the opening poem in this collection, concludes with these words. The word 'witness' comes with a wealth of meanings. The poems are, at one level, acute observations of the world in its physical and dramatic detail. But eye and ear detect, in what is there, shadows and figures of what is beyond, what imparts to the things perceived their deeper form, significance and beauty. Such seeing is a craft, a form of translation that engages not just ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781800170360
SKU
9781800170360
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About G.C. Waldrep
G.C. Waldrep is the author most recently of the collection feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the 2019 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a long poem, Testament (BOA Editions, 2015). Waldrep's poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, APR, Paris Review, New England Review, New American Writing, Harper's, Tin House, Conjunctions, and many other journals ... Read more

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