The Earliest Witnesses
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The Earliest Witnesses

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The Earliest Witnesses

About this book

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 the surface but the essence of what is seen, what the poet calls 'eye-proofs of the epiphenomenal world'. The ophthalmologist in 'A Mystic's Guide to Arches' keeps asking, 'Can you see this?' And we can, seeing it more fully each time we re-read the poem and the separate things configure into a single, powerful seeing. Language obscures - until it releases what it names to the senses.

The Earliest Witnesses is G.C. Waldrep's British debut.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781800170360
eBook ISBN
9781800170377
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. American Goshawk
  3. Caynham Camp
  4. I Have a Fever and Its Name Is God
  5. A Mystic’s Guide to Arches
  6. Croyland Abbey
  7. Mutter Museum with Owl
  8. Native, Like a Quince
  9. North Walsham
  10. Broken Things
  11. Never-Ending Bells
  12. Shall Bear Upon His Shoulder in the Twilight
  13. On the Feast of the Holy Infants Killed for Christ’s Sake in Bethlehem
  14. In Him Were Hidden All Our Tongues
  15. Blue Heron, Marlborough
  16. Jones Mountain Eclogue
  17. The Constellations
  18. On Being Mistaken for “Part of the Art” at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh
  19. Only Coerce Yourself Gently, & Show
  20. (Wordwell I)
  21. (Wordwell II)
  22. (Wordwell III)
  23. On Hearing a Cuckoo at Pentecost
  24. Pentecost, Risby
  25. [West Stow Orchard (I)]
  26. [West Stow Orchard (II)]
  27. Denizen (West Stow Orchard)
  28. [West Stow Orchard (III)]
  29. [West Stow Orchard (IV)]
  30. [West Stow Orchard (V)]
  31. To the Bank Holiday Caravans in Eastnor Park
  32. [St Melangell’s Day, Eastnor (I)]
  33. [St Melangell’s Day, Eastnor (II)]
    34. ...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. American Goshawk
  4. Caynham Camp
  5. I Have a Fever and Its Name Is God
  6. A Mystic’s Guide to Arches
  7. Croyland Abbey
  8. Mutter Museum with Owl
  9. Native, Like a Quince
  10. North Walsham
  11. Broken Things
  12. Never-Ending Bells
  13. Shall Bear Upon His Shoulder in the Twilight
  14. On the Feast of the Holy Infants Killed for Christ’s Sake in Bethlehem
  15. In Him Were Hidden All Our Tongues
  16. Blue Heron, Marlborough
  17. Jones Mountain Eclogue
  18. The Constellations
  19. On Being Mistaken for “Part of the Art” at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh
  20. Only Coerce Yourself Gently, & Show
  21. (Wordwell I)
  22. (Wordwell II)
  23. (Wordwell III)
  24. On Hearing a Cuckoo at Pentecost
  25. Pentecost, Risby
  26. [West Stow Orchard (I)]
  27. [West Stow Orchard (II)]
  28. Denizen (West Stow Orchard)
  29. [West Stow Orchard (III)]
  30. [West Stow Orchard (IV)]
  31. [West Stow Orchard (V)]
  32. To the Bank Holiday Caravans in Eastnor Park
  33. [St Melangell’s Day, Eastnor (I)]
  34. [St Melangell’s Day, Eastnor (II)]
  35. [Ely Cathedral]
  36. [St Melangell’s Day, Eastnor (III)]
  37. [St Melangell’s Day, Eastnor (IV)]
  38. [St Melangell’s Day, Eastnor (V)]
  39. [St Melangell’s Day, Eastnor (VI)]
  40. Hephaestus in Norfolk
  41. [Additional Eastnor Poem (I)]
  42. [Additional Eastnor Poem (II)]
  43. [Additional Eastnor Poem (III)]
  44. [Additional Eastnor Poem (IV)]
  45. [Additional Eastnor Poem (V)]
  46. [Additional Eastnor Poem (VI)]
  47. [Additional Eastnor Poem (VII)]
  48. [Additional Eastnor Poem (VIII)]
  49. [Additional Eastnor Poem (IX)]
  50. [Additional Eastnor Poem (X)]
  51. Hansen’s Disease
  52. After the Abolition of Festivals
  53. The Earliest Witnesses
  54. [The Line, Its Sleek Ark. Stow]
  55. [Llandyfeisant Church (I)]
  56. Castle Woods, Dinefwr
  57. [Dinefwr Castle (II)]
  58. [Dryslwyn]
  59. [Llandeilo Churchyard (I)]
  60. [Llandeilo Churchyard (II)]
  61. [Carn Goch]
  62. [Carreglwyd)
  63. [Llandyfeisant Church (II)]
  64. Notes on Poems
  65. Acknowledgments
  66. About the Author
  67. Copyright

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