Woods and the City

Woods and the City is a new collection of poems by the American poet Peter WeltnerAs Agendas W.S. Milne writes Weltners poetry resists the post-content post-intellectual post-memory culture we seem to be living in today succeeding through his writing in making us feel human again. He is a believer in human reason and dignity as well as the bright necessity of passion....His poems extol the virtues of the free and beautiful human being in an age of ravaged conventions.Woods: nature the green world freedom wilderness flowing streams and lakes mapless a place to get lost in shadowy and dark primeval pastoral the world of first things timeless inhuman unchanging. The city: civilization art history order patterned streets and aspiring buildings laws and customs the endless movement of people a human place transient time-haunted ever-changing. Such is the opposition long proposed between country and court the forest and the metropolis. But the poems in Woods and the City imagine the two not as opposed but as part of one sojourn like a life wandering between worlds unknowing in search of home.