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Poems in Prose (Smith collection)

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Illustrator
  
Frank Utpatel

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1965

Genre
  
Prose poetry

Country
  
United States of America

Cover artist
  
Frank Utpatel

Publication date
  
1965

Pages
  
xxiv, 54 pp

Author
  
Clark Ashton Smith

Publisher
  
Arkham House

Similar
  
Clark Ashton Smith books, Speculative fiction books

Poems in Prose is an illustrated collection of prose poems by Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1965 and was published by Arkham House in an edition of 1,016 copies. The book is a nearly complete collection of Smith's prose poetry.

Contents

Poems in Prose contains the following poems:

  1. "Clark Ashton Smith, Poet in Prose", by Donald S. Fryer
  2. "The Traveller"
  3. "The Flower-Devil"
  4. Images
  5. "Tears"
  6. "The Secret Rose"
  7. "The Wind and the Garden"
  8. "Offerings"
  9. "A Coronal"
  10. The Black Lake Vignettes
  11. "Beyond the Mountains"
  12. "The Broken Lute"
  13. "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
  14. "Grey Sorrow"
  15. "The Hair of Circe"
  16. "The Eyes of Circe"
  17. "A Dream of Lethe"
  18. "The Caravan"
  19. "The Princess Almeena"
  20. "Ennui"
  21. "The Statue of Silence"
  22. "Remoteness"
  23. "The Memnons of the Night"
  24. "The Garden and the Tomb"
  25. "In Cocaigne"
  26. "The Litany of the Seven Kisses"
  27. "From a Letter"
  28. "From the Crypts of Memory"
  29. "A Phantasy"
  30. "The Demon, the Angel, and the Beauty"
  31. "The Shadows"
  32. "The Crystals"
  33. "Chinoiserie"
  34. "The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony"
  35. "The Muse of Hyperborea"
  36. "The Lotus and the Moon"
  37. "The Passing of Aphrodite"
  38. "To the Daemon"
  39. "The Forbidden Forest"
  40. "The Mithridate"
  41. "Narcissus"
  42. "The Peril That Lurks Among the Ruins"
  43. "The Abomination of Desolation"
  44. "The Touchstone"
  45. "The Image of Bronze and the Image of Iron"
  46. "The Corpse and the Skeleton"
  47. "The Sun and the Sepulchre"
  48. "Sadastor"

References

Poems in Prose (Smith collection) Wikipedia
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