ARCHICEMBALO

Waldrep, G.C.

ISBN 10: 1932195742 / ISBN 13: 9781932195743

Published by Tupelo Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ARCHICEMBALO
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932195742
• ISBN 13: 9781932195743
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Poetry. G.C. Waldrep, always a startlingly original, appealing poetic voice, uses music theory and history to explore the interweaving of language and music. In fiercely intelligent, passionate verse, the poet seeks the delicate point between the voice of a singer (music) and that of a poet (language). An archicembalo (pronounced ark-e-Chem-ball-o) 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."

About the Author

G. C. Waldrep is the author of several collections of poetry, including feast gently, also published by Tupelo, which won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the long poem Testament. Waldrep’s work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Paris Review, APR, New England Review, New American Writing, Harper’s, Tin House, Verse, and many other journals, as well as twice in The Best American Poetry and in the second edition of Norton’s Postmodern American Poetry. He has received prizes from the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets as well as the Colorado Prize, the Dorset Prize, the Campbell Corner Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Writing, and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Bucknell University and edits the journal West Branch.