Goldbeater's Skin (Colorado Prize for Poetry)
"The poetry of G. C. Waldrep is a prolific liturgy, intense and conversational by turns. And the turning is telling; it comes round right. Bright idioms become bright branches, and the branches become the further architecture of Word. Christopher Smart and Hart Crane applaud these poems in Heaven because the Earth of these poems is true."—Donald Revell, final judge and author ofMy Mojave, Arcady,andThere Are Three