Ghosts of Past and Future: Selected Poetry, by Darrell Schweitzer (Paperback)
Brand : Wildside Press
$12.99
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- 1434482049
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"Ghosts of Past and Future demonstrates Darrell Schweitzer's ability to astonishus with his range and depth as a poet. Those who encountered him first as anengaging satirist and parodist will rejoice in the emotional depth of this work,though they will also be edified by his flashes of macabre humor. Schweitzer'ssymphonic progress of poems begins with illuminating meditations on mortalityand death. It then moves to splendid dramatic monologues informed by a sage'sknowledge and an lover's empathy. The book's next movement expands into works ofbeautiful and intimate lyricism. It climaxes with a series of insights on thesignificance of death for humanity's and the reader's future. The book is morethan a feast of death; it is an affirmation of human value and history. At thesame time, Schweitzer has put the book together to carry the reader through asif reading a piece of gripping suspense fiction. An important and, above all,fascinating book." --Mary A. Turzillo, Nebula winning fiction writer and poet.
"Darrell Schweitzer is an outstanding exponent of contemporary imaginativeliterature.... [He] has mastered a fine and very flexible kind of syllabic line,part free, part blank verse, achieving many definitive and memorable passagesthat haunt the shared corridors of our collective imagination." --DonaldSidney-Fryer, author of Songs and Sonnets Atlantean.