From a morning walk in the woods to a final walk to Golgotha and the Crucifixion, this new collection of nearly sixty poems, The Last Christian City and Other Poems by charles corden, includes works of many genres. They range from an account of President Lincoln in Richmond, the capitol of the Confederacy, to the homecoming of a marine from China after World War II; from the exodus of early man from Africa to the pangs of a first love in high school; and from the emergence of a basketball star to the death of a beloved pet. The title poem, The Last Christian City, chronicles the fall of...