Red Sky: Anthology of Speculative Poetry

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Speculative poetry travels winding roads leading to wondrous worlds, regions never traversed by mainstream verse. Fantastic poems range in the material they treat from the strange but explainable to the utterly fanciful, from horror to wonder, and from the rigidly verisimilitudinous to the purely surrealist. They may utilize traditional prosody or may avail themselves of the discontinuities and fragmentation of modernist free verse. They may use as setting the primary world, a secondary world, or a combination of the two. With roots planted firmly in the mythic and folkloric epics and ballads of yore, and branches reaching high into the endless skies of modern fantasy, science fiction, and horror, speculative poetry is a historic and vital poetic genre, the source of the most thoughtful, imaginative verse being written today. Red Sky features over 100 years' worth of speculative poetry from yesterday's masters, modern award winners, and emerging stars. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, metaphysical encounters and startling futuristic speculations, these poems will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of speculative poetry. "Enkindling dawns of memory, Each sun had radiance to relume A sealed, disused, and darkened room Within the soul's immensity. Their alien ciphers shown and lit, I understood what each had writ Upon my spirit's scroll; Again I wore mine ancient lives, And knew the freedom and the gyves That formed and marked my soul." Willy In The Nano Lab by Geoffrey A. Landis Cybernetic Sestina by E.S. Wynn Fatigue Of The Marionettes by Karen Neuberg The Fate Of Worlds by William Cullen, Jr. The Star-Treader by Clark Ashton Smith On This Outlying Planet by J.J. Steinfeld Close Encounters Of The Unique Kind by Adina Newman - Redder Soil, Greener Grass by Sara Bickley Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll Lost And Found by Fanni Süto To No End Death by Seth Frederiksen Shine Down On Me by David Revilla Rain Check: version 36 by Chris Fradkin Songs From An Evil Wood by Edward Plunkett Aerial Corps Enlistment by David S. Pointer What The Robots Know by Alyssa Black The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Flowing by Adrian George Nicolae You by Nora May French Pigeon Boy by Kyle Hemmings Repairman by John Grey Anastacia, Girl No. S10230 File: Insurgent by Carmen Tudor Rise Of The Machines by Stephanie Rose Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Fungi From Yuggoth by H.P. Lovecraft The Landing by Matthew Wilson The Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein The Visitors by Ed Higgins Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson The Stars Are Calling by Mathias Jansson Discombobulation by Rami Sebai Shadow Of Dreams by Robert E. Howard Armageddon by M.A. Crawford The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats The Centaurs by Rudyard Kipling Lamia by John Keats Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Hunting Of The Dragon by G.K. Chesterton Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 24, 2014)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 210 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1502939924

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 20

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.48 x 9 inches

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