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Stone Altars, by Peter Weltner

Stone Altars, by Peter Weltner

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Stone Altars, by Peter Weltner

Stone Altars, by Peter Weltner



Stone Altars, by Peter Weltner

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Stone Altars is a book of poems by an aging man still engaged in asking fundamental questions, never to be answered, which have haunted him since boyhood. It is a poetry of sea, sun, and sky, trees, rocks, streams, and hills, of loss, time, death, and memory, friends, lovers, and families. It seeks in forms the resonance they offer from the past, how their sounds and shapes expand meaning beyond what words alone can say. It searches in stories and writings from various sacred traditions for images and metaphors which can still be borrowed for serious thought in poetry today. The old questions suffice and endure: mortality, the brevity of all human life, but particularly of youth, the tragic beauty of the world, love's pain and beneficence, the call to compassion. These are the themes that recur in Stone Altars, that its poems brood about and ponder in ways always attentive to the particular, faithful to Pound's great admonition: Go in fear of abstractions.

Stone Altars, by Peter Weltner

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #2228028 in Books
  • Published on: 2015-06-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .50" h x 5.90" w x 9.00" l, .0 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 110 pages
Stone Altars, by Peter Weltner

Review Always moving, sometimes heartrending, Weltner's poetry captures what it is to be human. It is a humane poetry without artificiality, a poetry that accepts, without reservation, the whipsaw of joy and pain we all must live through. Despite its title there are no cinders here but live coals glowing with life. --Bradley R. Strahan, editor, Visions International; author of This Art of Losing.

Formal. Beautiful. Tough. Intricate. Musical. In love with language and music. Romantic. Strong. Homoerotic. Intelligent. Excellent. Flowing. Tight.Descriptive. Narrative. Emotional. Internal world of memory and imagination. Dedication. Serious. Dedication to beauty. Meaning. Formal. Excessive. Glamorous. Finds love and passion in the sea, hunger in dust.

Urgent. Moral. Difficult. Strong and painful. Loss. Beauty rescues. Desire. Symphonic. Sad. Ambitious. Large and brave. I feel breathless and sad that the world I live in doesn't care or is avoiding the size, scale, bounty, moral rigor, and passion of our lives that can be found here. --Linda Gregg, author of All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems

About the Author Peter Weltner has published five books of fiction, including The Risk of His Music and How the Body Prays, three poetry chapbooks, three collaborations with the artist Galen Garwood, most recently Water's Eye, and three full length collections of poems, News from the World at My Birth: A History, The Outerlands, and To the Final Cinder, the latter two from Brickhouse Books. His poems and stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines and journals and several national anthologies, including two O. Henry's, in 1993 and 1998. A graduate of Hamilton College and Indiana University, he taught for thirty seven years at San Francisco State University. He and his husband Atticus Carr live in San Francisco, steps away from the Pacific.


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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Sacred in the Concrete By Amazon Customer This is a beautiful collaboration between image and text. Both poems and photographic images are highly wrought and must have been worked on over the years as they sustain a very high level of lyrical intensity. Language and image seem to flow into the forms and play off one another.The book deals with some of the basic questions of life by dealing with the simplest of life's gifts in landscape and people, memory and loss. The poetry is, I suppose, religious which is often a difficulty for me but here the religious stems from the sacred and how it impacts on human life - its ephemeral nature and the elements about it that make it of value and this in its turn stems from the concrete. Above all, this book is about images, the observed as a way of questioning existence, and for this it is of permanent value.

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