"Through one life reclusive to all life inclusive, from +Steven Curtis Lance's heart to yours."
Sea Stones is a distillation of the essence of this modern master's late poetry, tracing the poet's passage from the death of winter through the birth of spring into the life of summer, a blooming of the light in which every moment matters and every word tells in ascending progression through the days to always, through one life reclusive to all life inclusive, from +Steven Curtis Lance's heart to yours.
An uncompromising artwork of meticulous quality, this ninth book of Lance is available in both softcover and collectible hardcover editions worldwide.
136 pages, 6.00" x 9.00", jacket-hardcover binding, 50# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink , 100# exterior paper, full-color exterior ink
My son said the words of my poetry Are like stones smoothed and rounded by the sea
Like sea stones I have carried from the beach I carry his analogy with me While savoring the sayings all and each Of his and other hearts in my own heart As inward echoes after when apart
Love grows down deep like the roots of a tree And up from these roots through trunk and through stem Through bud and through bloom the seed comes to be Smoothed like these sea stones and rounded like them As life is love so love is poetry
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A glimmer of hope in a glimpse of light At the tunnel's end at the edge of sight Appears through my tunnel-vision tonight Dim in the distant darkness as I grope Toward what could be a heartbreak but I hope Since were it not for hope the heart would break
So I believe tonight and I will take This spark across the shadows as a sign Despite what clock and calendar may say That someday some peace of mind might be mine If not right now in the future somehow If not today at least not far away
As those who judge such things give second looks Beyond what clock and calendar allow At me like what they see and buy my books
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12/18/2006
I have read all of these poems, some many times. Very few things have given me such pleasure. A book to buy, to keep and touch, to read and love, again and again.
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