Walking Toward the Sun

When it was published in 1936, Edward Weismiller's The Deer Come Down made him, at 21, the youngest Yale Younger Poet ever published in the series, a distinction he retains to this day along with being the oldest living recipient of the prize. Walking Toward the Sun, introduced by series editor W.S. Merwin, is the George Washington University emeritus professor's fourth collection (along with a spy novel, The Serpent Sleeping). ""Houses"" finds ""What I do not know is what I would shelter or do shelter, what houses I am, strange to my understanding, that will fall."" (June)