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Walking toward the sun / Edward Weismiller ; foreword by W.S. Merwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weismiller, Edward, 1915-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weismiller, Edward, 1915-2010.
- Weismiller, Edward.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 64 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1936, twenty-year-old Edward Weismiller became the youngest poet to win the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. Today, more than sixty years later, he retains that distinction. Yale University Press here reintroduces Edward Weismiller-now the oldest living Younger Poet-with the publication of his latest book of poetry. Weismiller's is "a talent that has kept faith with itself and its sources," says W. S. Merwin, current judge of the Younger Poets Series.In Walking Toward the Sun, youthful lyricism has given way to plainness of speech-even spareness. These poems are honest and unflinching, always striking in their prosody. They will remind some readers of Yeats, for they convey nobility in the face of old age, infirmity, and disappointment. Weismiller sings powerfully about a world of loss, but he is never grim or despairing. The poet in old age remains hopeful, open to possibility, and always aware of beauty in the smallest places.
- Contents:
- A Scene
- Monster Poem
- Sunken Forest
- The Tree in Front of the Old People's Home
- Tales Out of School
- The boy
- Quail
- After the rain
- The Trees
- Pacific Midnight
- The Water Gardens
- Bay Island
- Carolina Beach
- Roulette
- Short History
- An Early Conversation
- The Metamorphoses
- A Beached Whale
- Onegin
- Dialogue of the Dead
- A Field on Delos
- A Girl
- Sea Horse
- Houses
- Letter Found Blown Against a Fence
- "-So Full of Sleep-"
- Armida
- Love that twisted vine
- One-Sided Conversation with Henry
- Private Services
- A Fairly Common Story
- Poem
- Moving
- The wrong music
- City Limits
- How should I think long
- Thought; Song; Speech; Silence
- Aubade
- One-Sided Conversation #
- Song Under My Breath
- Realizations
- The Soliloquies
- Sitting too high in the house
- Like animals, we grow
- The Flowers
- This Spring: for Luverne
- Because There Is Time
- Walking Toward the Sun
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9786611729592
- 9781281729590
- 1281729590
- 9780300127669
- 0300127669
- OCLC:
- 191949799
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