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1 online resource (xii, 64 pages) |
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data file rda |
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Poetry |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
In 1936, 20-year-old Edward Weismiller became the youngest poet to win the prestigious "Yale Series of Younger Poets" prize. In this collection of poems, his youthful lyricism has given way to plainness of speech - even spareness. These poems are honest and unflinching, always striking in their prosody. They may 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 |
""Contents""; ""Foreword by W.S. Merwin""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1""; ""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""; ""2""; ""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"" |
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""""€?So Full of Sleep��""""Armida""; ""Love That Twisted Vine""; ""One-Sided Conversation with Henry""; ""Private Services""; ""A Fairly Common Story""; ""Poem""; ""3""; ""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"" |
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Weismiller, Edward, 1915-2010
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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2000-2099
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weismiller, Edward Ronald, 1915- Walking toward the sun. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2002 (DLC) 2002016707 |
| ISBN |
9780300127669 (electronic bk.) |
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0300127669 (electronic bk.) |
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