"Here is a gorgeous book of the most subtle and vivid mysteries, weighted with earth and time."--Li-Young Lee While hiking the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco, G.C. Waldrep became fascinated with how the military installations there impact the landscape's spectacular natural beauty. Thus, Waldrep produced "The Batteries," a sequence of nine poems that probe the interrelationship between beauty and violence. Poems from Disclamor have garnered G.C. Waldrep the 2006 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2007 NEA Fellowship. He holds a PhD in American history from Duke University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

"Southern Workers and the Search for Community is the first major effort to interpret the enduring legacy of the southern textile industry, company-owned mill villages, and the union struggles of the 1930s. Focusing on Spartanburg County, South Carolina, G. C. Waldrep offers an eloquent study of the hopes and fears that define patterns of labor activism.Revealing a complex meshing of community ties and traditions with the goals and ideals of unionism, Waldrep shows how unions fed into a social vision of mutuality, equality, and interdependency already established in mill villages. This powerful sense of community, however, ultimately rested on sand. Because the villages themselves were the property of management, any labor conflict involved not only issues of wages, hours, and working conditions inside the mill but also virtually every other aspect of life. Most important, the mill owners held the trump card of eviction.Waldrep looks beyond official versions of union activity in Spartanburg County to explain the episodic and apparently erratic eruptions of labor tensions and intervening periods of calm. Drawing on private records of textile workers, their employers, and their unions during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as more than a hundred oral interviews with workers, Waldrep reinterprets the periods of ""quiescence"" that have long puzzled historians. Documenting the high stakes of labor protest in mill villages, Waldrep shows how the erosion or outright destruction of community systematically undermined the ability of workers to respond to the assaults of employers overwhelmingly supported by government agencies and agents.Beautifully written and persuasively argued, Southern Workers and the Search for Community opens the gates of southern company towns to illuminate the human issues behind the mechanics of labor."

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

The poet uses music theory and history to explore the interweaving of language and music. In this verse, he seeks the delicate point between the voice of a singer (music) and that of a poet (language). An archicembalo was a complex sixteenth-century instrument, a successor to the harpsichord. The book is structured after a gamut, a nineteenth-century musical primer. Originally a single note on the scale, a gamut later came to mean a whole range-as in a singer or actor’s ability to cover the whole gamut. Gamuts were composed in a question and answer structure. Archicembalo is also set up as a call-and-response. Poems take off from each title (the question) and answer in exquisitely musical verses, metaphorical and rhythmical.

This long autobiographical poem covers Scottish castles, cymatics, religion, and Dolly the cloned sheep, while investigating gender as lyric form.

Lyrics of incarnation, of method and meat-hood, of illness and the vicissitudes of love, earthly as well as heavenly. What is the relationship between touch and language?--

A year of epistolary writing culminating in one of the most extensive collaboration books in the history of American poetry.

Number Four in the Keystone Chapbook Series, selected by G.C. Waldrep.

In the flowing of Susquehanna, language has been re-immersed in its origins. It is a coursing where this human industry / compressed into earth- / rudders second emptiness / braids a fist. Susquehanna offers an intermingling of meaning's tributaries where our human violations of nature are plunged into the currents of an irreconcilable otherness, a theft unhands / what had been / (interstitial) / pine-marrowed // phantom limb.