...G. C. Waldrep © 2011 G. C. Waldrep 2011 G. C. Waldrep The Limits of Metaphor When you think about it, a lot of things used to get made in America, but now they’re not: bowling balls and bowling pins, wire hangers, the machines that mix milkshakes, the enormous...

...G. C. Waldrep © 2016 G. C. Waldrep 2016 G. C. Waldrep The Children of the Bridechamber Mark 2:19 In every town I left behind, I sought my father’s name. Other men drew marriages from beneath the maps they used to paper the walls of their houses...

...G. C. Waldrep © 2016 G. C. Waldrep 2016 G. C. Waldrep This Grail of Meats, Asyndenton Now I am presenting my documents to the history of meat, of grapes, of honey. Now they are returned to me as the pallor of ashes, swept from a dry kiln. The wine, the sweet cake...

...G. C. Waldrep © 2011 G. C. Waldrep 2011 G. C. Waldrep Clerical Error The library gods and their puppets have won their lawsuit over identity theft and how the coast bends just at that place where the pharmaceutical heiress wanted to build her summer...

... Journal, and Word Riot. A singer and guitar player from Atascadero, California, Ephraim Scott Sommers teaches creative writing while completing his PhD at Western Michigan University. G. C. Waldrep’s most recent books are a long poem, Testament (2015), and a chapbook, Susquehanna (2013...

... Review and has work published or forthcoming in over eighty liter­ ary journals, including Smokelong Quarterly, The Potomac, Drunken Boat, and 34th Parallel. G. C. Waldrep’s third poetry collection, Archicembalo, won the Dor­ set Prize. His fourth, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts...