Walking Toward the Sun
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Walking Toward the Sun

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Walking Toward the Sun

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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.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780300127669
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. 1
  4. A Scene
  5. Monster Poem
  6. Sunken Forest
  7. The Tree in Front of the Old People’s Home
  8. Tales Out of School
  9. The boy
  10. Quail
  11. After the rain
  12. The Trees
  13. Pacific Midnight
  14. The Water Gardens
  15. Bay Island
  16. Carolina Beach
  17. Roulette
  18. 2
  19. Short History
  20. An Early Conversation
  21. The Metamorphoses
  22. A Beached Whale
  23. Onegin
  24. Dialogue of the Dead
  25. A Field on Delos
  26. A Girl
  27. Sea Horse
  28. Houses
  29. Letter Found Blown Against a Fence
  30. “—So Full of Sleep—”
  31. Armida
  32. Love that twisted vine
  33. One-Sided Conversation with Henry
  34. Private Services
  35. A Fairly Common Story
  36. Poem
  37. 3
  38. Moving
  39. The wrong music
  40. City Limits
  41. How should I think long
  42. Thought; Song; Speech; Silence
  43. Aubade
  44. One-Sided Conversation #——
  45. Song Under My Breath
  46. Realizations
  47. The Soliloquies
  48. Sitting too high in the house
  49. Like animals, we grow
  50. The Flowers
  51. This Spring: for Luverne
  52. Because There Is Time
  53. Walking Toward the Sun