Westerly
By: Will Schutt ; foreword by Carl Phillips
Contributors: Phillips, Carl, 1959-
Series: Yale series of younger poets -- v. 107; Yale series of younger poets -- v. 107.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780300189810; 9780300188516; 9781299483538; 9780300188509
Subjects: American; FICTION; POETRY; American poetry; General
Description: A young soldier dons Napoleon's hat. An out-of-work man wanders Berlin, dreaming he is Peter the Great. The famous exile Dante finally returns to his native city to "hang his crown of laurels up." Familial and historical apparitions haunt this dazzling collection of poems by Will Schutt, the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets award. Coupled with Schutt's own voice are the voices of some of Italy's most prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets including Giacomo Leopardi, Alda Merini, Eugenio Montale, and Edoardo Sanguineti. Subtle, discerning, restrained, the poems in Westerly probe a vast emotional geography, with its contingent pleasures and pains, "where the door's always dark, the sky still blue." ... some narrow sickness buried you. Whatever boyhood I had fate hijacked too. Old friend, is this that world we stayed awake all night for? Truth dropped in. Far off, your cool hand points the way.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Frontmatter --; title: Contents --; title: Foreword  -- Phillips, Carl; title: Acknowledgments --; title: We Didn't Start the Fire --; title: Golden State Sublet --; title: Fragment from a Coptic Tunic --; title: Transparent Window on a Complex View --; title: Beach Lane --; title: Wild Hogs --; title: From a Middle Distance --; title: Forgetting Waukesha, Remembering St. Helena --; title: Postcard of Peter Lorre Embracing Lotte Lenya, 1929 --; title: Flywheel with Variable Inertia --; title: American Window Dressing --; title: Rock Maple, White Pine --; title: Hunchback (Alda Merini) --; title: ''what do you do?'' (Edoardo Sanguineti) --; title: ''I taught my sons'' (Edoardo Sanguineti) --; title: ''one writes especially'' (Edoardo Sanguineti) --; title: Rain (Eugenio Montale) --; title: Westerly --; title: Beauty Spot --; title: Dante's House --; title: Crenellated Playroom --; title: Strange Giraffe --; title: A Kind of Poetry --; title: The Farther Veil --; title: Breughel in Rome --; title: Apparitions and Incarnations --; title: Louise's Story --; title: Elba Journal --; title: After A Silvia --; title: Notes.