Smoke from This Altar
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great collection of L amour's poetry. His descriptive writing is so good as to transport you to the location. This man was not only a great western writer. I have read all of his books and have collected almost all of his works except for his early works where he wrote under a pen name
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Contrary to expectations, L'Amour shows a very sensitive touch in these early poems. Mostly they describe his travels and his loneliness. There is the occasional story poem, with occasional flashes of humor.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Imagine my surprise several years back when I discovered that the famous Western novelist could also write amazing poetry! I have really enjoyed coming back to this book again and again over the past 10 years, and I count several of the poems in this book as some of my favorites.
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Smoke from This Altar - Louis L’Amour
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
From The Original Edition
Louis L’Amour, adventurer, soldier of fortune, and writer, was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, on the 22nd of March, 1908. Fifteen years later he began the wanderings that were to lead him into many of the strange and remote quarters of the globe. Drifting from port to port, and from country to country, he was variously occupied as seaman, miner, lumberjack, deep-sea diver, prizefighter, side-show barker, actor, reporter, and editor.
It was during those years that the material for these poems accumulated, as the titles of many of them will indicate. They were years that found him wandering in Japan, China, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, New Guinea, the Straits Settlements, India, Arabia, Egypt, and along the coasts of South and Central America. These are the memories and intimate glimpses of an interested observer.
Mr. L’Amour’s short stories, articles, and poetry, have appeared in many national magazines. His first novel is now in the hands of a publisher.
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Biographical Note
INTRODUCTION by Kathy L’Amour
Out of the Ocean Depths Soundlessly Moving
Smoke From This Altar
Interlude: Hongkong Harbor
Words From a Wanderer
To Cleone: In Budapest
I’m a Stranger Here
Without This Land
Life
Biography in Stone
An Ember In The Dark
Nocturne
Wings Over Waves
A Handful of Stars
Winter
Secret Pass
Banked Fires
North Cape
To You, Jeannine
Decadence
Love Out of Season
After Tomorrow
Yacodhapura
Steppe
To Giordano Bruno
The Weary One
Hildebrand
Enchanted Mesas
My Three Friends
In An Old Temple
The Sea, Off Vanua Levu
If There Is Beauty
Ship Across The Sky
McVey
I Came To Create
Lines To a Season
I Shall Go Back
NEWLY COLLECTED POEMS
I Haven’t Read Gone With The Wind
In Protest
Question
A Wail From a Pulpeteer
Old Jerry
Picture
Call Of The Tropics
The Gladiator
The Pioneer
Tranquillity
Twilight
Forest People
Winter Winds
Let It Snow
Then Came Spring
Rain
Mutation
To One Without Faith
Rose of Memory
Let Me Forget
Dedication
Acknowledgment
Other Books by This Author
About Louis L’Amour
Excerpt from LAW OF THE DESERT BORN (Graphic Novel)
INTRODUCTION by Kathy L’Amour
The first book Louis purchased for his own library was The Standard Book of British and American Verse. It was published in 1932 and much used and loved. It is still in our library, now in its second binding. Louis’ love of poetry and the English language was so strong and important in his life that it carried him through many dangerous and lonely days. At the time, poetry was the expression of Louis’ most important thoughts and feelings. It was the first manner in which he wrote about his life, his views and the places he had seen. Some of these poems got published in various newspapers and magazines, and though he made