The Exorcised Lyric - Softcover

Withrow, Steven; Coffman, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1736711407 ISBN 13: 9781736711408

Publisher: Mind's Eye Publications, 2020

Synopsis

THE EXORCISED LYRIC is a collaboration of speculative poetry by Steven Withrow and Frank Coffman. It includes two collaborative sonnet sequences: "The Exorcised Lyric" and "Toward Solstice Station." The reader will also find 20 new individual poems by each of these formalist poets and both a cover and amazing interior illustrations by Paul "Mutartis" Boswell. This tome follows publications of individual collections by these established poets of the speculative: THE SUN SHIPS & OTHER POEMS, and THE BEDLAM PHILHARMONIC by Withrow; and THE COVEN'S HORNBOOK & OTHER POEMS and BLACK FLAMES & GLEAMING SHADOWS by Coffman. STEVEN WITHROW'S poems have appeared in Spectral Realms, Asimov's Science Fiction, Dreams & Nightmares, and Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers. His short poem, "The Sun Ships," from a collection of the same title, was nominated for a 2016 Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. His most recent solo collection is THE BEDLAM PHILHARMONIC. He lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The two collaborations focus upon a haunted-perhaps possessed!-minister and poet whose piously intended lines are somehow altered into blasphemies in the former sequence, and upon an time-and-space shifting trip by train that present the reader with, seemingly, the same father, mother, and daughter but traveling through different eras and places in a journey across America-East to West.

About this title

About the Author

FRANK COFFMAN is a retired pro-fessor of college English, Creative Writing, and Journalism. His two collections of verse: THE COVEN'S HORNBOOK & OTHER POEMS and BLACK FLAMES & GLEAMING SHADOWS have each received consideration for the Stoker Award from The Horror Writer's Association, is a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and founded the WEIRD POETS SOCIETY Facebook group. He has published both speculative verse and short fiction in a variety of journals, magazines, and anthologies. He lives in Elgin, Illinois. Illustrator Paul "Mutartis" Boswell is a UK-based artist whose work capturing the essence of literary works in the speculative genres has been widely acclaimed. The book's cover and eight amazing interior illustrations greatly enhance this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mind's Eye Publications
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1736711407
• ISBN 13: 9781736711408
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Mutartis Boswell
• Number of pages: 114