
When I Go West
New and Selected Poems
William Sheldon(Author)
Meadowlark Poetry Press
Published on 23. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
156 pages
978-1-956578-83-6 (ISBN)
Description
In When I Go West, William Sheldon compiles nearly twenty-five years of poetic reflection into one august volume. These poems present snapshots of a life well-lived-working in one's garden, wandering through the woods, admiring the gift of an "orange-pink sky"-guiding readers to appreciate the simple joys and quiet beauty of life and reminding us how we are part of the same cycles as all of the natural world: birth, growth, and eventual decay. To Sheldon, death is not something to be feared, but rather a natural and necessary part of life. Ashes and compost will feed the next year's crops, and "purpose is assured only in the ground."
In When I Go West, William Sheldon compiles nearly twenty-five years of poetic reflection into one august volume. These poems present snapshots of a life well-lived-working in one's garden, wandering through the woods, admiring the gift of an "orange-pink sky"-guiding readers to appreciate the simple joys and quiet beauty of life and reminding us how we are part of the same cycles as all of the natural world: birth, growth, and eventual decay. To Sheldon, death is not something to be feared, but rather a natural and necessary part of life. Ashes and compost will feed the next year's crops, and "purpose is assured only in the ground."
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
237 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-956578-83-6 (9781956578836)
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William Sheldon lives in Hutchinson, Kansas. He is the author of three other books of poetry, Retrieving Old Bones(Woodley Press, 2002), Rain Comes Riding (Mammoth Publications, 2011), Deadman (Spartan Press, 2021), as well as a chapbook, Into Distant Grass (Oil Hill Press, 2009). He plays bass for the bands The Excuses and Cow Creek Blues.