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SMOKE FROM THIS ALTAR
Louis L'Amour
A Bantam Book December 1990
The Louis L Amour Collection I March
Many of these poems previously appeared in Shards, Versecraft, Kaleidograph, Tanager,
Prairie Winds, The Bard, Expression, Arrow, Southernesque, Embryo, and Don't Worry.
Some were reprinted in North Dakota Singing, the Oklahoma Poetry Society Anthology,
and Moon In The Steeple. To the editors of these publications I wish to extend grateful
acknowledgment.
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This edition copyright © 1990 Louis D. and Katherine E. L Amour 1981 Trust.
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To Singapore Charlie,
who couldn't read
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
From The Original Edition
Louis L'Amour, adventurer, soldier of fortune, and writer, was torn 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.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION by Kathy L'Amour xi
Out of the Ocean Depths Soundlessly Moving 1