Love's Last Number: Poems
by Christopher Howell 2021-01-14 16:03:59
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From celebrated poet Christopher Howell, Love''s Last Number is a series of musings on time''s arrow: on both the relentless march that divides each moment into past, present, and future - before and after - and the ultimately porous and recursive n... Read more
From celebrated poet Christopher Howell, Love''s Last Number is a series of musings on time''s arrow: on both the relentless march that divides each moment into past, present, and future - before and after - and the ultimately porous and recursive nature of time itself. In a multiplicity of voices and tones, the collection reflects on what we, as humans, do about memory, love, grief, war, and the search for meaning.In its sinuous sequences, Love''s Last Number insists that life - and history - are a continuing crisis of faith, imagination, consciousness, and moral clarity. And yet these poems, like existence itself, offer moments of transcendent joy and sudden hilarity: laughter against the darkness. Less
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  • 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.33 in
  • 96
  • Milkweed Editions
  • February 24, 2017
  • English
  • 9781571314758
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