Poems in Prose (Smith collection)

For the work of the same name by Oscar Wilde, see Poems in Prose (Wilde collection).

Poems in Prose

Jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for Poems in Prose
Editor	Donald Sidney-Fryer
Author	Clark Ashton Smith
Illustrator	Frank Utpatel
Cover artist	Frank Utpatel
Language	English
Genre	Prose poetry
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1965
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xxiv, 54

Poems in Prose is an illustrated collection of prose poems by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Donald Sidney-Fryer. 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. French editor and critic Philippe Gindre called the book "the magnificent Poems in Prose." ^[1]

Contents

Poems in Prose contains the following poems:

• "Clark Ashton Smith, Poet in Prose", by Donald S. Fryer
• "The Traveller"
• "The Flower-Devil"
• Images
  • "Tears"
  • "The Secret Rose"
  • "The Wind and the Garden"
  • "Offerings"
  • "A Coronal"
• "The Black Lake"
• Vignettes
  • "Beyond the Mountains"
  • "The Broken Lute"
  • "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
  • "Grey Sorrow"
  • "The Hair of Circe"
  • "The Eyes of Circe"
• "A Dream of Lethe"
• "The Caravan"
• "The Princess Almeena"
• "Ennui"
• "The Statue of Silence"
• "Remoteness"
• "The Memnons of the Night"
• "The Garden and the Tomb"
• "In Cocaigne"
• "The Litany of the Seven Kisses"
• "From a Letter"
• "From the Crypts of Memory"
• "A Phantasy"
• "The Demon, the Angel, and the Beauty"
• "The Shadows"
• "The Crystals"
• "Chinoiserie"
• "The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony"
• "The Muse of Hyperborea"
• "The Lotus and the Moon"
• "The Passing of Aphrodite"
• "To the Daemon"
• "The Forbidden Forest"
• "The Mithridate"
• "Narcissus"
• "The Peril That Lurks Among the Ruins"
• "The Abomination of Desolation"
• "The Touchstone"
• "The Image of Bronze and the Image of Iron"
• "The Corpse and the Skeleton"
• "The Sun and the Sepulchre"
• "Sadastor"

Sources

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 78. ISBN   1-55742-005-X.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 42.
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 89–90. ISBN   0-87054-176-5.
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 94–95. ISBN   0-7864-1785-4.

1. Philippe Gindre, “Donald Sidney-Fryer, dernier poéte Courtois,” Le Boudoir des Gorgones: Revue de littérature étranger et fantastique n. 7 (October 2003), p. 57; reprinted in Esoteric Order of Dagon: Continuity n. 136 (November 2006), p. 15, translated into English by Donald Sidney-Fryer.