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In time for Halloween- a one-of-a-kind hardcover collection of poems from ancienttimes to the present about ghosts, zombies, and vampires. EVERYMAN'SLIBRARY POCKET POETS. This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils. Our culture's current obsession with zombies and vampires is only the latest form of a fascination with crossing the boundary between the living and the dead that has haunted humans since we first began writing. The poetic evidence gathered here ranges from ancient Egyptian inscriptions and the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh to the Greek bard Homer, and from Shakespeare and Milton and Keats to Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. Here too are terrifying apparitions from a host of more recent poets, from T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Rita Dove and Billy Collins, from Allen Ginsberg and H. P. Lovecraft to Mick Jagger and Shel Silverstein. The result is a delightfully entertaining volume of spine-tingling poems for fans of horror and poetry both… (altro)
I didn’t like this as much as I liked Killer Verse from this series. The poems in here are about on par, I think, with a pleasing variety of styles and themes and cultures. (Though very few poems from outside the Western world and quite a lot of English literary canon types.) However, the variation between the poems didn’t seem as wide and apart from a handful that evoked a sort of melancholy or eeriness, I didn’t feel a lot of emotion reading them.
Favourites include “Der Totentanz“, “All Hallows Eve“, “The Death of Dracula”, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, “Goodbye to a Poltergeist”, “Gas-Lamp Ghost”, “The Wood of Suicides”, “The Whale”, and “Isis Unveiled.”
I’m not sure what else I can say about this. It’s well curated apart from the global diversity issue and the editors have done some interesting things pairing poems on the same subject or even versions of the same poem side by side. Enjoyable, even with my usual problem of having to reread poems to figure out what’s going on, and worth picking up if you’re curious, but it’s not a whole lot more than that. Killer Verse was a lot more mentally and emotionally challenging.
Warnings: Death, murder, sexual assault. One poem about the Holocaust. Possible romantically mistranslated Ancient Egyptian. Several poems that appears to simultaneously romanticize Indigenous Americans and portray them as horrifically pagan. One poem referencing the AIDS epidemic.
In time for Halloween- a one-of-a-kind hardcover collection of poems from ancienttimes to the present about ghosts, zombies, and vampires. EVERYMAN'SLIBRARY POCKET POETS. This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils. Our culture's current obsession with zombies and vampires is only the latest form of a fascination with crossing the boundary between the living and the dead that has haunted humans since we first began writing. The poetic evidence gathered here ranges from ancient Egyptian inscriptions and the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh to the Greek bard Homer, and from Shakespeare and Milton and Keats to Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. Here too are terrifying apparitions from a host of more recent poets, from T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Rita Dove and Billy Collins, from Allen Ginsberg and H. P. Lovecraft to Mick Jagger and Shel Silverstein. The result is a delightfully entertaining volume of spine-tingling poems for fans of horror and poetry both
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Favourites include “Der Totentanz“, “All Hallows Eve“, “The Death of Dracula”, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, “Goodbye to a Poltergeist”, “Gas-Lamp Ghost”, “The Wood of Suicides”, “The Whale”, and “Isis Unveiled.”
I’m not sure what else I can say about this. It’s well curated apart from the global diversity issue and the editors have done some interesting things pairing poems on the same subject or even versions of the same poem side by side. Enjoyable, even with my usual problem of having to reread poems to figure out what’s going on, and worth picking up if you’re curious, but it’s not a whole lot more than that. Killer Verse was a lot more mentally and emotionally challenging.
Warnings: Death, murder, sexual assault. One poem about the Holocaust. Possible romantically mistranslated Ancient Egyptian. Several poems that appears to simultaneously romanticize Indigenous Americans and portray them as horrifically pagan. One poem referencing the AIDS epidemic.
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