The Unattended Harp

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Peter Waldor is one of the most original voices in American poetry today. With subtle wit and a pitch perfect ear he celebrates all things great and small—be it a bolt hole on a bridge to the speed of light—with a transformative, often spiritual imagination. We are better off after reading him.

"I love the poems in THE UNATTENDED HARP. The things (the people, the animals, the objects) seen, sometimes only for the moment, have finally found their form in this book. That's what happens in these poems: Everything seen in the enchantment of its actuality."—David Ferry