Poems Dead and Undead
Published on 16. September 2014
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-375-71251-7 (ISBN)
Description
In time for Halloween: a one-of-a-kind hardcover collection of poems from ancient times to the present about ghosts, zombies, and vampires. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY 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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-375-71251-7 (9780375712517)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Edited by Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Content
Introduction: One Foot Out of the Grave
THE CORPOREAL UNDEAD
Henry Israeli
Depraved Cogitation
Kim Addonizio
Night Of The Living, Night Of The Dead
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Der Totentanz (The Dance of the Dead)
Bryan Dietrich
Zombies
Robert E. Howard
Dead Man’s Hate
William Shakespeare
Puck’s Nighttime Speech
Eugene Lee Hamilton
On Two Of Signorelli’s Frescoes
1. The Rising of the Dead
2. The Binding of the Lost
Marvin Bell
The Book of the Dead Man (Medusa)
1. About the Dead Man and Medusa
2. More About the Dead Man and Medusa
Edgar Allan Poe
The Sleeper
Charles Baudelaire
Metamorphoses of the Vampire
Tony Barnstone
The Revenant
George Gordon, Lord Byron
from The Giaour
William Baer
All Hallows Eve
Michael Hulse
The Death of Dracula
Alexandra Teague
Sarah Winchester, 23 Years Dead, Watches House of Dracula
Tim Siebles
Blade, The Daywalker
Tim Siebles
Blade, Historical
Conrad Aiken
The Vampire
Jim Stewart
Count Orlok
Tony Trigilio
My Childhood Nightmares Unfolded in Serial Narrative
Sarah Maclay
The View From Harold Way
THE INCORPOREAL UNDEAD
Jorge Luis Borges
Dead Hoodlums
Sholeh Wolpe
Ghost Tango
Alan Michael Parker
Words for Spring
Matthew Sweeney
In the Dust
Hayden Carruth
The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
Li-young Lee
Nocturne
William Wordsworth
We Are Seven
Gary Young
I last saw my mother
Emily Dickinson
One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted
Charles Harper Webb
Haunted
Robert Frost
Ghost House
David Orr
Daniel
T. S. Eliot
from Little Gidding
David Daniel
Paint
Thomas Hardy
The Shadow on the Stone
Mark Jarman
Goodbye to a Poltergeist
Howard Nemerov
I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
William Shakespeare
The Ghost of King Hamlet
Ciaran Carson
Labuntur et Imputantur
James Merrill
Voices from the Other World
Charles Simic
from The Invisible
Anne Sexton
Ghosts
Harold Pinter
Ghost
Richard Garcia
The White Ghosts
Edward Hirsch
Hotel Window
John Donne
The Apparition
Richard Hunt
Gas-lamp Ghost
Walt Whitman
As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
D.H. Lawrence
The Inheritance
Anonymous
The Unquiet Grave
John Milton
Sonnet 23: Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint
Derek Dew
(Weathervane) Pirate Ship of the Dead
Yusef Komunyakaa
Blue Dementia
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
The Ghosts (from The Song of Hiawatha)
Molly Peacock
Great-Grandmother’s Young Ghost
Jorge Teillier
In Order to Talk with the Dead
William Stobb
The Panther
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Incantation of the Spirits of Earth and Air
Vachel Lindsay
from The Ghosts of the Buffaloes
Egyptian Pyramid Text
The Dead King Eats the Gods
DEVILS, GODS, ANGELS, DEATH
Amin Esmaielpour
From Zahhak’s Burning Tehran
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
From Hell, Mister Lusk
Dante Alighieri
Canto XIII: The Wood of Suicides (from The Inferno)
Arthur Rimbaud
Night of Hell
John Milton
Satan’s Speech to the Fallen Angels (from Paradise Lost)
Stephen Dobyns
The Gardener
Boris Pasternak
Mephistopheles
H. P. Lovecraft
Nemesis
Allen Ginsberg
Howl, Part II
Anonymous
The Whale
Bishop Theobaldus
The Whale
Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from The Devil’s Walk
George Meredith
Lucifer in Starlight
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
from Faust
Rita Dove
Hades’ Pitch
Nuala ni Dhomhnaill
Devil’s Tattoo
David St. John
In the Pines
Alexander Pushkin
Demons
Jennifer Clement
Deus Ex Machina
Anonymous
From The Oldest Legends of Ancestors
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
Sonnet 100
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
Anonymous
Beast from The Sea (from The Book of Revelation)
Christina Rossetti
The World
Charles Baudelaire
Incubus
Anonymous
Enkidu’s Dream of the Underworld (from The Epic of Gilgamesh)
version by Tony Barnstone and Emma Varesio
Homer
The Land of the Dead (from The Odyssey)
Lynda Hull
Address (from Suite for Emily)
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death
William Shakespeare
Flute Playing the Death of Thisbe
Robert Louis Stevenson
Death to the Dead For Evermore
Suzanne Roberts
Skeleton
Grace Schulman
Instructions for a Journey
Dana Curtis
The Angel Opened
Billy Collins
Questions About Angels
Edward Hirsch
Isis Unveiled
Helene Cardona
To Kitty, Who Loved The Sea And Somerset Maugham
C. K. Williams
Halo
Anonymous
from Psalm 18
Willis Barnstone
God of the Gas Chambers, Where Are You Hiding?
Robert Pinsky
The Refinery
Shel Silverstein
Monsters I’ve Met
THE CORPOREAL UNDEAD
Henry Israeli
Depraved Cogitation
Kim Addonizio
Night Of The Living, Night Of The Dead
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Der Totentanz (The Dance of the Dead)
Bryan Dietrich
Zombies
Robert E. Howard
Dead Man’s Hate
William Shakespeare
Puck’s Nighttime Speech
Eugene Lee Hamilton
On Two Of Signorelli’s Frescoes
1. The Rising of the Dead
2. The Binding of the Lost
Marvin Bell
The Book of the Dead Man (Medusa)
1. About the Dead Man and Medusa
2. More About the Dead Man and Medusa
Edgar Allan Poe
The Sleeper
Charles Baudelaire
Metamorphoses of the Vampire
Tony Barnstone
The Revenant
George Gordon, Lord Byron
from The Giaour
William Baer
All Hallows Eve
Michael Hulse
The Death of Dracula
Alexandra Teague
Sarah Winchester, 23 Years Dead, Watches House of Dracula
Tim Siebles
Blade, The Daywalker
Tim Siebles
Blade, Historical
Conrad Aiken
The Vampire
Jim Stewart
Count Orlok
Tony Trigilio
My Childhood Nightmares Unfolded in Serial Narrative
Sarah Maclay
The View From Harold Way
THE INCORPOREAL UNDEAD
Jorge Luis Borges
Dead Hoodlums
Sholeh Wolpe
Ghost Tango
Alan Michael Parker
Words for Spring
Matthew Sweeney
In the Dust
Hayden Carruth
The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
Li-young Lee
Nocturne
William Wordsworth
We Are Seven
Gary Young
I last saw my mother
Emily Dickinson
One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted
Charles Harper Webb
Haunted
Robert Frost
Ghost House
David Orr
Daniel
T. S. Eliot
from Little Gidding
David Daniel
Paint
Thomas Hardy
The Shadow on the Stone
Mark Jarman
Goodbye to a Poltergeist
Howard Nemerov
I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
William Shakespeare
The Ghost of King Hamlet
Ciaran Carson
Labuntur et Imputantur
James Merrill
Voices from the Other World
Charles Simic
from The Invisible
Anne Sexton
Ghosts
Harold Pinter
Ghost
Richard Garcia
The White Ghosts
Edward Hirsch
Hotel Window
John Donne
The Apparition
Richard Hunt
Gas-lamp Ghost
Walt Whitman
As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
D.H. Lawrence
The Inheritance
Anonymous
The Unquiet Grave
John Milton
Sonnet 23: Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint
Derek Dew
(Weathervane) Pirate Ship of the Dead
Yusef Komunyakaa
Blue Dementia
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
The Ghosts (from The Song of Hiawatha)
Molly Peacock
Great-Grandmother’s Young Ghost
Jorge Teillier
In Order to Talk with the Dead
William Stobb
The Panther
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Incantation of the Spirits of Earth and Air
Vachel Lindsay
from The Ghosts of the Buffaloes
Egyptian Pyramid Text
The Dead King Eats the Gods
DEVILS, GODS, ANGELS, DEATH
Amin Esmaielpour
From Zahhak’s Burning Tehran
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
From Hell, Mister Lusk
Dante Alighieri
Canto XIII: The Wood of Suicides (from The Inferno)
Arthur Rimbaud
Night of Hell
John Milton
Satan’s Speech to the Fallen Angels (from Paradise Lost)
Stephen Dobyns
The Gardener
Boris Pasternak
Mephistopheles
H. P. Lovecraft
Nemesis
Allen Ginsberg
Howl, Part II
Anonymous
The Whale
Bishop Theobaldus
The Whale
Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from The Devil’s Walk
George Meredith
Lucifer in Starlight
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
from Faust
Rita Dove
Hades’ Pitch
Nuala ni Dhomhnaill
Devil’s Tattoo
David St. John
In the Pines
Alexander Pushkin
Demons
Jennifer Clement
Deus Ex Machina
Anonymous
From The Oldest Legends of Ancestors
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
Sonnet 100
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
Anonymous
Beast from The Sea (from The Book of Revelation)
Christina Rossetti
The World
Charles Baudelaire
Incubus
Anonymous
Enkidu’s Dream of the Underworld (from The Epic of Gilgamesh)
version by Tony Barnstone and Emma Varesio
Homer
The Land of the Dead (from The Odyssey)
Lynda Hull
Address (from Suite for Emily)
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death
William Shakespeare
Flute Playing the Death of Thisbe
Robert Louis Stevenson
Death to the Dead For Evermore
Suzanne Roberts
Skeleton
Grace Schulman
Instructions for a Journey
Dana Curtis
The Angel Opened
Billy Collins
Questions About Angels
Edward Hirsch
Isis Unveiled
Helene Cardona
To Kitty, Who Loved The Sea And Somerset Maugham
C. K. Williams
Halo
Anonymous
from Psalm 18
Willis Barnstone
God of the Gas Chambers, Where Are You Hiding?
Robert Pinsky
The Refinery
Shel Silverstein
Monsters I’ve Met