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| .Memory and Heaven |
| Christopher Howell |
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Poetry
152 Pages, .................. ISBN: 0-910055-28-9
Paper: $14.00.................. ISBN: 0-910055-27-0
Cloth: $24.50
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These poems come to us from a poet who has learned to season his work with something more than meticulous attention to his technique and his array of fetching images. They require the reader's attention to a movement of thought and feeling, leading to new perceptions of the quotidian, a new sense of the orders of being. We are constantly aware of the concrete, the physical, raised to the transcendent; to the immanence of "something far more deeply interfused."
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| Christopher Howell is author of six collections of poems, most recently Memory and Heaven, and has received grant awards from the National Endowment, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals, including Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Gettysburg Review. |
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| Praise for Memory and Heaven |
| "Tangled, fertile, obsessed with time, elegaic, comic, shifty, and always sharply, freshly observant, each syllable carries on a running battle with those who would reduce life to mock-turtle simulations and virtual realities, and each word is stroked on the loom of gratitude for the power of the imagination we are given." |
—Bill Tremblay.......... |
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| "These strong courtly poems refuse to bow to any authority other than their own truth. And for this reason-and a dozen others-they bring great pleasure. Christopher Howell's a poet to be taken seriously, and then savored." |
—James Tate.......... |
"...the strongest book yet by an already strong poet."
—Jonathan Holden |
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