Walking Toward the Sun
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Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When it was published in 1936, Edward Weismiller's The Deer Come Down made him, at 21, the youngest Yale Younger Poet ever published in the series, a distinction he retains to this day along with being the oldest living recipient of the prize. Walking Toward the Sun, introduced by series editor W.S. Merwin, is the George Washington University emeritus professor's fourth collection (along with a spy novel, The Serpent Sleeping). "Houses" finds "What I do not know is what I would shelter or do shelter, what houses I am, strange to my understanding, that will fall."
