{"product_id":"lights-ladder-paperback","title":"Light's Ladder - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Howell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this extraordinary new collection by distinguished poet Christopher Howell, the opening poem presents us with a spiritual paradox that will echo throughout its pages. The speaker remembers an earlier time of happiness, freedom, and a certain innocence. The poem closes with: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And if he remembers now\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e he is in love, which is the soul's condition, and alone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e because that is how we live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How we live\" is the book's major inquiry; its illustration, the poems' major achievement. How do we live, in our dailiness, in our loves, our private and global wars? And, in the face of unbearable grief, how can we live?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeats\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Keats, at last beyond the curtain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof love's distraction, lay dying in his room\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eon the Piazza di Spagna, the melody of the Bernini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFountain \"filling him like flowers,\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehe held his breath like a coin, looked out\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003einto the moonlight and thought he saw snow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe did not suppose it was fever or the body's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eweakness turning the mind. He thought, \"England!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand there he was, secretly, for the rest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof his improvidently short life: up to his neck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein sleigh bells and the impossibly English cries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof street venders, perfect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand affectionate as his soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor days the snow and statuary sang him so far\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebeyond regret that if now you walk rancorless\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand alone there, in the piazza, the white shadow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof his last words to Severn, \"Don't be frightened,\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emay enter you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9.38 x 6.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336934539513,"sku":"9780295984001","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/olbw0oUOIO9780295984001.webp?v=1769671751","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/lights-ladder-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}