Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

Bird and Tree / In Place by Peter Weltner ’64

October 1, 2021

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(Seattle: Marrowstone Press, 2020).
The prolific poet has given us another collection, this one described as one book of poems composed of two. According to the publisher: “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 what glimpses of transcendence humanity is allowed to see. It is a poetry of quest and questioning, of a late life looking back, of form and freedom pondering those essential things long pondered before us.”