The Earliest Witnesses

by G.C. Waldrep III

In the poems of The Earliest Witnesses, witnesses need a place to begin-they spiral off from a walk, a church, an orchard, to go into deeper meditation about faith, earth, restraint, desire, and violence. Waldrep's seventh collection begins where his prior collection, feast gently, left off: "This / is how the witness ends: touch, withdraw; touch again," according to the opening poem. The status of witnesses is never constant and never settled in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194648248X
• ISBN13: 9781946482488
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"