Little Low Heaven

by Anthony Butts

Poetry. LITTLE LOW HEAVEN describes a world of isolation and beauty, art and prophecy, loss and yearning. In his tender yet terrible reading of the human condition, Anthony Butts has become a poet of pain and sorrow and, finally, of the barest budding of hope.

Genres: Poetry

59 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2003

Reviews

[Andrew Sydlik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful and sometimes painful ruminations on love, sexuality, faith, art, and the human condition. Grandiose as Rilke at times, gritty as Ginsberg at others, using both abstract thoughts and concrete imagery to powerful effects. A good example, from “Machine”:

Outside of town, thousands of frogs chortle
And whistle like the frantic sirens and screams
Of an apocalypse, but only the theaters
Are full. Aliens have invaded the earth

Once again. We are never alone, not even
The man who pulls his wife closer in bed
To keep her silent….

And from “Lake of the Spirits”:

Things of this world can be broken. The boy in the mirror
Wears mirrored sunglasses. He calls

The clear piss in the toilet “The Lake of the Spirits.”
The water sparkles like dead ponds where chemicals

Extinguish all life…..