The Earliest Witnesses by G.C. Waldrep Liz Berry He established and until recently

He established and until recently directed the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington

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The Earliest Witnesses by G.C. Waldrep Liz Berry He established and until recentlyWaldrep's seventh collection begins where his prior collection, feast gently, left off: "This is how the witness ends: touch, withdraw; touch again," according to the opening poem in The Earliest Witnesses. If these are poems of witness, then they are also testators to the craft of seeing: eye proofs of an epiphenomenal world. "Can you see this," the ophthalmologist in "A Mystic's Guide to Arches" asks over and over again. Sight becomes both the