The Library in the Garden

BY G.C. Waldrep

A preoccupation with wounds: the simple machine the blood makes. So classical. As fetish: the spinning top, the gyroscope. To orient. A seam along the thigh. From which, or into. A string may. And the wooden pet that follows, simulacra — so gaily painted. Submissive to the vector. Patience. Lief circuit. Ask any small tribe hiding. There will be no inf(l)ection, no body. Another planet has stolen my name.

 

Biography

G.C. WALDREP‘s most recent collection is Archicembalo (Tupelo Press, 2009), which won the Dorset Prize. His next, in collaboration with John Gallaher, is Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (forthcoming from BOA Editions in April 2011). His poems have appeared recently in the The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Harper’s, The Nation, and other journals. He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Bucknell University.

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