Description
Book SynopsisPart of the "Pacific Northwest Poetry" series, this collection of poems presents us with a spiritual paradox. The speaker remembers an earlier time of happiness, freedom, and a certain innocence. "How we live" is its major inquiry; its illustration, and the poems' major achievement.
Trade Review"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."
* Salem Statesman Journal *
"Chris Howell is probably the most gifted poet in America..He tends to write magnificent lyrical poems, but Light's Ladder is filled with narrative poems and they are tremendous."
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Table of ContentsPreface
I
If He Remembers June Light in Oslo
Running
Metamorphosis
Trusting the Beads
Unexpectation
History
Today
Situation 2003
A Party on the Way to Rome
Apacatastasis
If the World Were Glass
The Counterchime
Confession
He Writes to the Soul
1974
II Stories for Braille Calliope
Sometimes at the Braille Calliope
Bird Man Stranded
The Eye Becomes Birds Because of War
The Toad Prince
King's Ex
Zeno
The Thriteenth Interval
Teleology of the Airhose
King of the Butterflies
The Montavilla Reveries
The Fire Elegies
1. Family Values
2. The Double Suicide of Marriage
3. To Build a Fire
4. Storm
5. Arrivals
6. The Angels of Rescue
A Christmas Ode After the Fashion of Michael Hefferman...
Heaven
III
Why the River Is Always Laughing
Galileo
Story Time
All Day at the Brainard Pioneer Cemetery
Backyard Astronomy
Letter
Cole Porter
The Getaway
Keats
Event
Like Rain Descending
The New Orpheus
A Little Blues
Acknowledgments
About the Poet
