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    Smoke from This Altar
    Smoke from This Altar
    Smoke from This Altar
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    Smoke from This Altar

    By Louis L’Amour

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    Published regionally more than 50 years ago, Smoke From This Altar has become the most sought-after L'Amour title ever. The poetry in this book is inspired by the author's experiences and memories of his wanderings--from China to the West Indies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHouse of Majied
    Release dateNov 7, 2017
    ISBN9780307491084
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    • 5/5
      This 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
    • 4/5
      Contrary 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.
    • 5/5
      Imagine 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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    This edition copyright © 2017 Digital Deen Publications 

    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

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