Bücher von 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.

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, recurrently rhyme with the present.

A Last Hike In is a book of late life, of a writer's returning to his sources in wildernesses, the untamed places of the heart, of solitude and passion and love, and in the deep pasts of myths and ancient history as he continues his lifelong search for meaning, for what stays, the essential things of which, no matter the hour, we still have so much to say, so much there's left to tell. It is a song of the earth that, like Mahler's, as it approaches the end, listens for the profound call, like a summons from within the world, of what endures, of what sustains and consoles us, as if forever.

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.