..and the dead stood praying to be the first to voyage over,
and reached out their hands in longing for the distant shore,
but the woeful boatman, Charon, chooses these and those
and fends off others, forcing them from the sandy strand.
Virgil, Aeneid, Book VI, ll.313-316
“Peter Weltner is a poet of finely tuned craft with a sensuous ear for the sound of language. His poems look directly at the world. They don’t flinch in the face of loss and death; they strive, in a manner wonderfully accomplished, for transcendence.” Joseph Stroud (Of This World and Everything That Rises, Copper Canyon Press)
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