Publication

2017 - Milkweed Editions

Language

English

Word Count

24,000 words, Guess

Page Count

96 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10157131475X
  • ISBN-139781571314758
  • AmazonB06XRY7QTW
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016029439
  • OCLC Control Number951955718
and 3 more
  • Better World Books9781571314758
  • Better World BooksW8-BGT-179
  • Open LibraryOL28614573M

Classifications

  • LCCPS3558.O897A6 2017
  • LCCPS3558.O897 A6 2017

Description

"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. A soldier remembers limes and curious children in Portugal. Refugees cross a dangerous land, and find each other in love. Boy scouts play war in devastating ways, a child listens to a baseball game in a more innocent time. In this 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"--

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Other Editions

  • Love's Last NumberMilkweed Editions2017

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