A Review of G.C. Waldrep's THE EARLIEST WITNESSES - Green Mountains Review
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 ...
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