Written Arts Program Presents
Open House with Poet G. C. Waldrep
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Shafer House
10:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
10:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Have a steamy hot tea or coffee with the poet in Shafer's waterfall lounge
The Written Arts program warmly invites all Bard students, faculty, and staff to stop by the downstairs lounge of Shafer House (at the Annandale Triangle, not the Toaster) between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, for hot drinks, snacks, and conversation.Waldrep's books include Goldbeater's Skin, The Batteries, Disclamor, Archicembalo, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, and Testament.
PRAISE FOR ARCHICEMBALO
"Waldrep's title Archicembalo denotes an antique keyboard instrument with 24, or many more, keys per octave. Notoriously hard to play, such instruments made subtle and challenging music, with notes a conventional score could not include. Waldrep's sometimes bewildering, often exciting prose poems make their own unconventional music, replete with slippages, repetitions, suggestions." —New York Times Book Review
"G. C. Waldrep turns the prose poem upside down by focusing on what he knows best—music theory and history, which come to life is compact, language-driven texts.This setup explodes into visionary and audio linguistics that accompany the experience of encountering the poem while transforming the reader's senses into a fresh dimension of understanding."
—Bloomsbury Review
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Shafer House