Spectral Realms Number 7: Summer 2017

Joshi, S.T. (editor)

ISBN 10: 161498204X / ISBN 13: 9781614982043

Published by Hippocampus Press, New York, 2017

About this Item

New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2017. Trade paperback, New, 144 pp. Cover artwork by: Barbara Briggs Silbert Weird poetry and articles on weird fiction and poetry. Includes stuff from John Shirley, Jessica Salmonson, Richard Tierney, and others.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spectral Realms Number 7: Summer 2017
• Publisher: Hippocampus Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161498204X
• ISBN 13: 9781614982043
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Barbara Briggs Silbert
• Condition: Trade paperback, New,
• Seller catalogs:
  • Horror

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Synopsis

This seventh issue of Hippocampus Press's acclaimed journal of weird poetry features nearly 60 original poems of fantasy and terror from such renowned poets as Ann K. Schwader, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, John Shirley, Christina Sng, and Richard L. Tierney. Among the more distinctive works are "Dracul's Demesne," a sonnet sequence by Frank Coffman; two acrostic sonnets on H. P. Lovecraft by Manuel Pérez-Campos; Adam Bolivar's ingenious poetic reinterpretation of Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" ("The Ballad of the de la Poers"); and moving prose-poems by David Barker, Liam Garriock, Maxwell I. Gold, and Charles D. O'Connor III.

As classic reprints, the issue includes the long title poem by Ernest A. Edkins, from his fabulously rare poetry collection Amenaphra and Other Poems (1889), as well as a selection from Paul Eldridge's Baudelaire-inspired collection Vanitas (1920). S. T. Joshi contributes a searching analysis of George Sterling's celebrated fantasy poem "A Wine of Wizardry," concluding that the poem is "a self-fulfilling justification for the entire realm of weird literature." Leigh Blackmore reviews Benjamin Blake's much-heralded volume Standing on the Threshold of Madness, while John Shirley covers Tim Powers's limited-edition booklet, Poems.

In all, Spectral Realms #7 carries on the tradition of meticulously crafted weird verse, which is enjoying an unprecedented renaissance in our time.