BIRD and TREE / IN PLACE

Bird and Tree/In Place by Peter Weltner is one book of poems composed of two. 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 Weltners 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.