
The Grief of a Happy Life
Christopher Howell(Author)
University of Washington Press
Published on 2. October 2019
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-0-295-74616-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Christopher Howell's twelfth collection of poems, his gifts for elegy, humor, and lyricism are on full display. The Grief of a Happy Life explores the interplay between memory and imagination, celebrating the ways that happiness and grief inform one another and give our lives fullness and vitality.
Arranged in four sections, Howell's poems feature not only these concerns, but a large and various cast of characters as well. Aeneas, Saint Theresa, Ovid, Kierkegaard, a German submarine, and so much more are woven together with Howell's trademark precision and accessibility into exquisite tableaux, each providing a view of both what we must live with and what we must not live without.
Arranged in four sections, Howell's poems feature not only these concerns, but a large and various cast of characters as well. Aeneas, Saint Theresa, Ovid, Kierkegaard, a German submarine, and so much more are woven together with Howell's trademark precision and accessibility into exquisite tableaux, each providing a view of both what we must live with and what we must not live without.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-74616-6 (9780295746166)
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Born in Portland, Oregon, Christopher Howell is author of a dozen poetry collections, including Love's Last Number, Gaze, and Dreamless and Possible: Poems New and Selected. He has received numerous honors, including the Washington State Book Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust, and three Pushcart Prizes. A military journalist during the Vietnam War, he has been for many years director and principal editor for Lynx House Press and now lives in Spokane, Washington, where he teaches in Eastern Washington University's master of fine arts in creative writing program.