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Goldbeater's Skin (Colorado Prize for Poetry) Paperback – December 16, 2003

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Winner of the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
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"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




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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


About the Author

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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Center for Literary Publishing (December 16, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1885635060
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1885635068
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.03 x 0.4 x 9.03 inches
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G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are Testament (BOA Editions, 2015); Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, 2011), a collaboration with John Gallaher; The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta, 2012), co-edited with Joshua Corey; and a chapbook, Susquehanna (Omnidawn, 2013). Waldrep’s work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, APR, New England Review, New American Writing, Harper’s, Tin House, Verse, and many other journals, as well as in Best American Poetry 2010 and the second edition of Norton’s Postmodern American Poetry. He has received prizes from the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets, as well as the Colorado Prize, the Dorset Prize, the Campbell Corner Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Writing, and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Bucknell University, is Editor for the literary journal West Branch, and serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2007
The poetry in this book is nothing short of astonishing. Waldrup's words will take your breath away, over and over again. This is one of the most original, un-cliched collections of poetry I have read in a very long time. The poetry is deeply intellectual and intensely visceral all at the same time. I am so in love with this collection that I have tried to pass it along to everyone in several poetry workshops, read aloud from it at every opportunity, photocopied poems for friends ... everything short of handing out copies to strangers on the street. This first collection will blow your mind. If you care at all about poetry, read this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2004
This book is woderful. It uses language in magical ways. It is difficult to believe that the book is Waldrep's first collection of poetry. It is that good. It is memorable. It is memorable. It is memorable. What more can one ask for?
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Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2004
It is rare that poetry moves me in such an unshakeable way. This work takes on new meaning each reading and sings when spoken outloud.
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