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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 nature of time itself.
On the way to this achievement, in a multiplicity of voices and tones, the poet reflects on what we do about memory, love, grief, war, and the contradictions implicit in the human search for meaning. At once profoundly intimate and ambitiously broad in scope, this book, in its sinuous sequences, insists that life—and history—are a continuing crisis of faith, imagination, consciousness, and moral clarity. And yet the poems, like existence itself, offer moments of transcendent joy and sudden, inexplicable hilarity: laughter against the darkness.
Born in Portland, Oregon, Christopher Howell is author of eleven collections of poems, including Love’s Last Number, and Gaze (both from Milkweed Editions, 2017 and 2012) and Dreamless and Possible: Poems New and Selected (University of Washington Press, 2010). He has received the Washington State Governor’s Award, the Washington State Book Award, two National Endowment Fellowships, two fellowships from the Washington Artist Trust, and the Vachel Lindsey and Helen Bullis Prizes. His work has made three appearances in the Pushcart Prize anthology, and may be found in many journals and anthologies. Since 1975 he has been director and principle editor for Lynx House Press and is now also director for Willow Springs Books. He lives in Spokane, where he is on the Master of Fine Arts faculty at Eastern Washington University’s Inland NW Center for Writers.
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