Light's Ladder

AvChristopher Howell

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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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 nowhe is in love, which is the soul’s condition, and alonebecause that is how we live."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?KeatsWhen Keats, at last beyond the curtainof love’s distraction, lay dying in his roomon the Piazza di Spagna, the melody of the BerniniFountain “filling him like flowers,”he held his breath like a coin, looked outinto the moonlight and thought he saw snow.He did not suppose it was fever or the body’sweakness turning the mind. He thought, “England!”and there he was, secretly, for the restof his improvidently short life: up to his neckin sleigh bells and the impossibly English criesof street venders, perfectand affectionate as his soul.For days the snow and statuary sang him so farbeyond regret that if now you walk rancorlessand alone there, in the piazza, the white shadowof his last words to Severn, “Don’t be frightened,”may enter you.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-04-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 6 mm
Vikt:154 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pacific Northwest Poetry Series
Antal sidor:96
Förlag:University of Washington Press
ISBN:9780295984001

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Christopher Howell’s eleventh collection of poems, Love’s Last Number, was published in 2017 by Milkweed Editions. His poems, essays, and translations have also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Crazy Horse, Denver Quarterly, Field, Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, Hudson Review, Iowa Review, Northwest Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Review, and Volt. He has been the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, two National Endowment Fellowships, two fellowships from the Artist Trust, and the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Editorial Excellence. Howel is the director and principal editor for Lynx House Press. Howell is also editor of Willow Springs Books, director of the Eastern Washington University Press, and on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University. He lives in Spokane, Washington.

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"No excerpt of any of the poems will help you understand the poignancy and meaning in these poems. Read them. Read them all. It will change your life."

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIIf He Remembers June Light in OsloRunningMetamorphosisTrusting the BeadsUnexpectationHistoryTodaySituation 2003A Party on the Way to RomeApacatastasisIf the World Were GlassThe CounterchimeConfessionHe Writes to the Soul1974II Stories for Braille CalliopeSometimes at the Braille CalliopeBird Man StrandedThe Eye Becomes Birds Because of WarThe Toad PrinceKing's ExZenoThe Thriteenth IntervalTeleology of the AirhoseKing of the ButterfliesThe Montavilla ReveriesThe Fire Elegies1. Family Values2. The Double Suicide of Marriage3. To Build a Fire4. Storm5. Arrivals6. The Angels of RescueA Christmas Ode After the Fashion of Michael Hefferman...HeavenIIIWhy the River Is Always LaughingGalileoStory TimeAll Day at the Brainard Pioneer CemeteryBackyard AstronomyLetterCole PorterThe GetawayKeatsEventLike Rain DescendingThe New OrpheusA Little BluesAcknowledgmentsAbout the Poet