Monster Verse - (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Tony Barnstone & Michelle Mitchell-Foust (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"An anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about monsters and fantastical creatures"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman </i>brings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages. <p/> Humans have always defined themselves by imagining the inhuman; the gloriously gruesome monsters that enliven our literary legacy haunt us by reflecting our own darkest possibilities. The poems gathered here range in focus from extreme examples of human monstrousness--murderers, cannibals, despotic Byzantine empresses--to the creatures of myth and nightmare: dragons, sea serpents, mermaids, gorgons, sirens, witches, and all sorts of winged, fanged, and fire-breathing grotesques. The ghastly parade includes <i>Beowulf</i>'s Grendel, Homer's Circe, William Morris's Fafnir, Lewis Carroll's Jabberwock, Robert Lowell's man-eating mermaid, Oriana Ivy's Baba Yaga, Thom Gunn's take on Jeffrey Dahmer, and Shakespeare's hybrid creature Caliban, of whom Prospero famously concedes, "This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine." <p/> <i>Monster Verse</i> is both a delightful carnival of literary horror and an entertainingly provocative investigation of what it means to be human.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>TONY BARNSTONE </b>is the Albert Upton Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College, California. Author of numerous books of poetry, including<i>Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki</i>, winner of the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry, he is also a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry and literary prose, and editor of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthology <i>Chinese Erotic Poems</i>. <p/><b>MICHELLE MITCHELL-FOUST</b> is the author of two poetry books and winner of numerous awards including a <i>Nation</i> Discovery Award, the Columbia University Poetry Prize, the Missouri Arts Council Biennial Award, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in <i>The Nation</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>Antioch Review</i>, and <i>The Colorado Review</i>. She lives in Gold Beach, Oregon.
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