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  • The Lost Ghosts of Lemnos
    Peter Nissen Weltner
    The Lost Ghosts of Lemnos is a mediation on the tragic and variously religious or metaphysical deep pasts of Greek, Roman, Chinese, Japanese, and Nordic poetries and fragments of poems or plays whose implicit voices are summoned to the present through the re-creations of memory, not through translation but a dialogic, free rendition of them, making new poems from old ones. Amon...
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    13,06 €

  • Old Songs Replayed
    Peter Weltner
    Old Songs Replayed is a book of and about memories: how they inevitably translate the past into the present and, herein lies one of the mysteries of history, the present into the past. It is composed of four sections, the first about a college in upstate New York in the early 1960s, about learning and the knowledge of other worlds; the second consists of a necessarily brief and...
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    12,17 €

  • Spare Change for the Crossing
    Peter Weltner
    Spare Change for the Crossing, A Last Hike In, and A Last Look Back compose a trilogy of books, recollective in several senses and thematically intertwined, which Peter Weltner wrote in his eightieth and eighty-first years. He regards them together as his final book, a kind of culmination of a lifetime of thought and experience.  ...
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    12,26 €

  • A Last Look Back
    Peter Weltner
    Following soon after the publication of A Last Hike In, A Last Look Back is its sequel and complement, both books are about trekking into what Keats called 'the old oak Forest' while recalling earlier and similar journeys, real and imaginary, the poet has made before. In both books, Peter Weltner continues to explore how images from the past, of place, and of passion, recurrent...
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    11,94 €

  • Sleeper, Waking / Late Night Reveries at Eighty
    Peter Weltner
    Sleeper, Waking is a book of late night reveries in old age. A reverie is a half-conscious, half dream-like state in which all the stuff of the real world is no less real but loosed from the ties of time, freeing childhood woods, rivers, lakes, faces one has known, lives one has shared, cities visited or lived in, books read, music heard, past passions and lost lovers, even old...
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    13,06 €

  • An Old Man Sails a Paper Boat
    Peter Weltner
    Peter Weltner’s ’An Old Man Sails a Paper Boat, a Chapbook,’ is a collection of twenty-four poems, is an evocation of age, of memories....' There’s a streak of stubbornness in the old. Such cold is what his poetry celebrates now he’s out of time and maybe luck,the strange chill of age he’s known from the long ago day he was born, the nip of fall in all he has ever loved and los...
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    8,28 €

  • Woods and the City
    Peter Weltner
    Woods and the City is a new collection of poems by the American poet, Peter, WeltnerAs Agenda’s W.S. Milne writes, 'Weltner’s poetry resists the post-content, post-intellectual, post-memory culture we seem to be living in today, succeeding through his writing in making us feel human again. He is a believer in human reason and dignity, as well as the bright necessity of passion....
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    12,24 €

  • SCRAPBOOK MAPPINGS OF MY COUNTRY
    Peter Weltner
    Scrapbook Mappings of My Country is a book of poems composed of many voices in many places, like snapshots saved in a scrapbook. It begins in the South, moves to the Northeast and New England, shifts to Texas and the Middle West, and then travels to the Pacific Coast. It concludes with another sort of pilgrimage, with its intimations of journeys’ end. Throughout, it is concerne...
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    14,00 €

  • BIRD and TREE / IN PLACE
    Peter Weltner
    Bird and Tree/In Place,by Peter Weltner, is one book of poems composed of two. Its epigraph is taken from the English Romantic poet, John Clare: to 'turn the blue blinders of the heavens aside/To see what gods are doing.' In Weltner’s book, the gods are such fundamental powers and presences as the past, memory, human existence in place and time, passion in all its senses, and w...
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    11,99 €

  • LATE THOUGHTS
    Peter Weltner
    LATE THOUGHTS is the most recent publication of poetry by the American poet and writer, Peter Weltner. These remarkable poems reflect the power and honesty of a poet in the fullness of his life. His poems, as described by Joseph Stroud, '...look directly at the world. They don't flinch in the face of loss and death. They strive for a transcendence where All's light, All...
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    18,16 €

  • You Wait For Me Where Mountain Peaks Are White As Your Hair
    Peter Weltner
    An exciting new book of poetry by the American poet, Peter Weltner, publsihed by Marrowstone Press. Many poems, haiku-like, begin in a landscape that branches quickly into primal terrain, textual and sensual, where the past weaves its spell into a present always on the cusp of slipping away. ...
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    11,19 €

  • Unbecoming Time
    Peter Weltner
    Heidegger extolled language as the “house of being” but Peter Weltner in this exquisite and deeply moving new collection finds it “betrayed by lies spouted each moment in every known tongue.” Daring “to be ceremonial” in face of our constitutive dishonesty, Weltner’s poetic craft is revelatory, allowing the singular things of the world to show themselves. Weltner’s temporal hor...
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    11,24 €

  • The Return of What's Been Lost
    Peter Weltner
    The Return of What’s Been Lost’s fourteen stories and fourteen “choral” poems mediate on loss, personal and cultural, and on how mourning embodies in the self, incarnate and haunting, the hugeness of what is missing.  The book begins during the Second World War, moves into the years immediately after it, enters into the era of Vietnam and later the AIDs epidemic, and ends with ...
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    11,52 €

  • Late Summer Storm In Early Winter
    Peter Weltner
    “In Late Summer Storm in Early Winter, exquisite poetry by Peter Weltner and startling images by Galen Garwood engage in an ineffable dialogue that ranges between the echoing call of the distant past and the intimate whisper of the mythological present. Here the radiant beauty of the body and the savage reach of hunger and fear collide, whether in the sanctity of love, in dream...
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    26,59 €

  • Water’s Eye
    Peter Weltner
    Water’s Eye is a small but stunning book of poetry by Peter Weltner and photographs by artist Galen Garwood. This suite of six long poems by Weltner are poetic responses to Garwood’s enigmatic photographs, offering a creative collaboration both mythic and contemporary, charged with illuminated metaphors of sea and light and longing. This is their third book of poetry and art; W...
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    17,76 €