Poetry. Waldor's spare irony--sometimes tender, sometimes bawdy--deals in dichotomies: love and hate, frailty and strength, fear and faith. These elliptical and colloquial lyrics draw equally from parable, prayer, and elegy. Hesitating on the threshold between isolation and community, the poet focuses a distortingly accurate microscope on what matters in our lives."It's such a delight when something catches you by surprise and makes you read on-and on. So it is with Waldor, a superb lyric, gnomic and Gnostic poet"--Gerald Stern. Peter Waldor's poems have been published or are forthcoming in many magazines, such as The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares and the Iowa Review. Waldor lives in northern New Jersey with his wife and three children, where he works in the insurance business.