Distributed for Tupelo Press
feast gently
In his most autobiographically transparent (and most comical) collection to date, Waldrep explores the intersections between body and spirit, faith and action. These are lyrics of incarnation, of method and meat-hood, of illness and the vicissitudes of love, earthly as well as heavenly, occupying the space between desire and gratification, between pain and praise.
Table of Contents
Contents
3 Their Faces Shall Be as Flames
6 Like a Fire from Which Sparks Emitted Do Fly Upward
9 Fox-Breath / (para-chantry)
10 To the Embalmers
12 On Setting Myself on Fire
15 White Peaches
17 In Memory of Domestic Life
19 On the Seventh Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan
21 Chipping Campden
23 Untitled (Drone Poem)
26 Anniversary
31 Convocation (Psaltery)
33 Neither Winter nor a Golden Dust
35 Fishguard Harbour
37 Eight Short Films about Architecture
46 Candleweb, Thaw
48 Map / (after Jasper Johns)
50 Poem in Which I Pretend You Are Still Alive (I)
53 Poem in Which I Pretend You Are Still Alive (II)
55 The Prescriptivist
57 Small Song (for Edith Stein)
59 Cancer Poem
61 The Fear Was in the Northeast
63 Common Prayer
65 Passion for St. Wenog’s Day
66 Watching Sparrows Dust-Bathe in a Dry Gutter
67 The Grievers
68 The Doubled Organs
70 What David Taught & Where He Taught It
71 Ascension Day
74 As Flesh Made New Through Burning
75 The Completion of Shadows
76 My Beast Made of Gold Is My Vocation
77 Metobelus
80 Acknowledgments
3 Their Faces Shall Be as Flames
6 Like a Fire from Which Sparks Emitted Do Fly Upward
9 Fox-Breath / (para-chantry)
10 To the Embalmers
12 On Setting Myself on Fire
15 White Peaches
17 In Memory of Domestic Life
19 On the Seventh Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan
21 Chipping Campden
23 Untitled (Drone Poem)
26 Anniversary
31 Convocation (Psaltery)
33 Neither Winter nor a Golden Dust
35 Fishguard Harbour
37 Eight Short Films about Architecture
46 Candleweb, Thaw
48 Map / (after Jasper Johns)
50 Poem in Which I Pretend You Are Still Alive (I)
53 Poem in Which I Pretend You Are Still Alive (II)
55 The Prescriptivist
57 Small Song (for Edith Stein)
59 Cancer Poem
61 The Fear Was in the Northeast
63 Common Prayer
65 Passion for St. Wenog’s Day
66 Watching Sparrows Dust-Bathe in a Dry Gutter
67 The Grievers
68 The Doubled Organs
70 What David Taught & Where He Taught It
71 Ascension Day
74 As Flesh Made New Through Burning
75 The Completion of Shadows
76 My Beast Made of Gold Is My Vocation
77 Metobelus
80 Acknowledgments