Smoke from this Altar
A revised edition of Louis L'Amour's first book with 20 additional poems.
Bantam Books
December 1990
First printings of this edition will have the number line: (0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) on the copyright
page.
Contents
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
20 newly collected poems
(not found in the 1939 first edition):
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
