Westerly: Volume 107 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300188516)

Will Schutt is the 2012 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

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.

Author: Will Schutt
ISBN-10: 030018851X
ISBN-13: 9780300188516
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2013
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.27h x 4.94w x 0.23d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2013
Booklist 04/01/2013 pg. 15
Shelf Awareness 04/05/2013