Light's Ladder Contributor(s): Howell, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0295984007 ISBN-13: 9780295984001 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2004040716 |
Series: Pacific Northwest Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6.18" W x 9.38" (0.32 lbs) 96 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this extraordinary new collection by distinguished poet Christopher Howell, the opening poem presents us with a spiritual paradox that will echo throughout its pages. The speaker remembers an earlier time of happiness, freedom, and a certain innocence. The poem closes with: And if he remembers now "How we live" is the book's major inquiry; its illustration, the poems' major achievement. How do we live, in our dailiness, in our loves, our private and global wars? And, in the face of unbearable grief, how can we live?
When Keats, at last beyond the curtain |