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Three Sad Steps to Heaven
- Colorado Review
- Center for Literary Publishing
- Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2021
- pp. 131-132
- 10.1353/col.2021.0000
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
In conversation with Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps," William Archila's "Three Sad Steps to Heaven" explores the speaker's relationship to the dead. In this narrative, yet lyrical construct we find a voice informed by the exile, the immigrant that even in the most mundane moments cannot escape being struck by the moon's presence in the night sky.