The Elusive Hold and Other Poems

By: Odegaard, Larry

The Elusive Hold deals with the first stirrings of passion of first love and also the whole range of feelings engendered by first having and then losing a first love. It also deals with more mature love and feelings engendered by both finding and losing a mature love. There are three different loves addressed in the love poems. The Elusive Hold also examines the many moods of spiritual love and awareness, of finding and keeping a love that cannot be lost. Human love is a prototype for divine love and the feelings involved in human love can merge into divine love. Mr. Odegaard has been inspired by poets of British and American romantic poetry: Woodsworth and Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelly. He has also sought inspiration in Holderlin, Rilke, Hopkins, Gray, Mandelstam and Trakl. He also must include Hawthorne, Melville and Hart Crane.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412083567
• ISBN13: 9781412083560
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"