Walking Toward the Sun
ISBN: 9780300127669
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Yale University Press
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Subjects: Literature;

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.


Edward Weismiller is professor emeritus of English, George Washington University. His previous volumes of poetry are The Deer Come Down, published by Yale University Press, The Faultless Shore, and The Branch of Fire. He is also the author of a classic espionage novel, The Serpent Sleeping. Among the numerous awards he has received is the 2001 Robert Fitzgerald Award for lifetime contribution to the study of metrics and versification.

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