{"product_id":"westerly-volume-107-paperback","title":"Westerly: Volume 107 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWill Schutt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill Schutt is the 2012 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWesterly\u003c\/i\u003e probe a vast emotional geography, with its contingent pleasures and pains, \"where the door's always dark, the sky still blue.\" \u003cp\u003e . . . some narrow sickness buried you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Whatever boyhood I had\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e fate hijacked too. Old friend, is this that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e world we stayed awake all night for?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Truth dropped in. Far off, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e your cool hand points the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill Schutt\u003c\/b\u003e's poems and translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAgni\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFIELD\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from the Stadler Center for Poetry and the James Merrill House, he currently lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9.27 x 4.94 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724335517759,"sku":"9780300188516","price":56.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ce85e405d84c5cddec1ad956ee4905ac.webp?v=1765102318","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/westerly-volume-107-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}