In a career that has spanned more than fifty years, Donald Sidney-Fryer has distinguished himself by being the biographer, critic, and bibliographer of Clark Ashton Smith; the chronicler of the “California Romantics,” a school of 20th-century poets including Smith, George Sterling, and himself; and an unfailingly acute analyst of poetry and prose fiction in several languages.
In this scintillating volume of his more recent writings, Sidney-Fryer dwells at length on his visits to Thailand, Cambodia, Egypt, Central America, Hawaii, and Micronesia, revealing his sensitivity to exotic landscapes and the weight of history and culture in these ancient lands. We also find essays and reviews on surrealism, the poetry of George Sterling, Wade German, Henry J. Vester III, and Alan Gullette, and two vivid accounts of Lovecraft conventions in Providence, R.I.
The latter sections of the volume comprise THE MISCELLANEON, Sidney-Fryer’s ongoing experiments in poetry and prose poetry, exhibiting his mastery of a multiplicity of verse forms and also taking note of his momentous transition from California to Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
Introduction: "West of Wherevemore" A Trip to Southeast Asia A Sentimental Pilgrimage to Mother Egypt An Interlude in Central America: El Salvador A Trip to Hawaii and Micronesia Time-Line Night at Beyond Baroque Surrealism Is as Surrealism Does To the Stars and Beyond A Journey Beyond All Journeys Enlightenment from the Outer Dark An Account of Donaldo’s Attendance at StokerCon in Providence, R.I. In the Footsteps of the Masters Musings Philosophical and Religious The Miscellaneon Contents Apollo-Ganymede Only Fifty Times Removed Cet au-delà That Lies Beyond No Escape from Vehicular Mobility The Ministers of Chance The Eden-Paradise That Haunts Our Undersoul O Brave New World of Faerie Lands Forlorn No One’s Realm Time Bomb Some Lordly Helmet An Achaemenian Munificence Another Spenserian Stanza-Sonnet Once Again Moonlight Mood A Rendezvous in a Newer Carthage The Black Swan with the Scarlet Bill Old New Bedford, and Even Older An Offering as from Afar An Unknown Isle in ? A Vagrant Vessel Plying Here and There Return to Paradise Lost A Victorian Poem in Redwood An Island Is an Independent Realm A Futuristic Icon of an Easter Island Head Some Little Windows on the World Winter Scene Kaleidoscopic Odyssey Change Is as Change Insists The Miracle of Palm Trees in the Dusk The Unicorn Looks at the Lady from Afar Squirrels at Play An Experiment in Variation The Uplet and the Cuplet No More of Majesty Snowfall A Fellow Creature on Our Planet Needments and Oddments The Elder Daemon Notes, by Dlanod Yendis Afterthoughts Postscriptum: Cape Cod and Canal
Donald Sidney-Fryer (b. 1934) is the author of Songs and Sonnets Atlantean (1971), Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography (1978), and many other volumes. Hippocampus Press recently published his autobiography, Hobgoblin Apollo (2018).
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 01 August, 2019.
