Smoke from this Altar
Lusk
Publishing Company
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Copyright 1939
Book will
state "FIRST EDITION" on copyright page
Book appeared
in at least six different colors of cloth binding.
Orange
/ black lettering
Orange / gold lettering
Light green / black lettering
Dark green / gold lettering
Dark Gray /
black lettering
Light Gray / black lettering
Contents
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
Note: Many of these poems had previously appeared in other publications such as Shards, Versecraft, Kaleidograph,
Prairie Wings, North Dakota Singing, The Tanager etc...