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Poems Dead and Undead Edited by Tony Barnstone & Michelle Mitchell-Foust

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

Book type :
Hardback
ISBN :
9781841597997
Number of Pages :
256
Publisher :
Everyman's Library
Price :

£10.99

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