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The fourth volume in the distinguished Pacific Northwest Poetry Series

Table of Contents

Preface

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

Reviews

"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."
*Redactions: Poetry and Poetics*