Poems Dead and Undead [Hardcover]

In time for Halloween: a one-of-a-kind hardcover collection of poems from ancient times to the present about ghosts, zombies, and vampires. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS.

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.Introduction:One Foot Out of the Grave
 
THE CORPOREAL UNDEAD
 
Henry Israeli
Depraved Cogitation
 
Kim Addonizio
Night Of The Living, Night Of The Dead
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Der Totentanz (The Dance of the Dead)
 
Bryan Dietrich
Zombies
 
Robert E. Howard
Dead Man’s Hate
 
William Shakespeare
Puck’s Nighttime Speech
 
Eugene Lee Hamilton
On Two Of Signorelli’s Frescoes
1. The Rising of the Dead
2. The Binding of the Lost
 
Marvin Bell
The Book of the Dead Man (Medusa)
1. About the Dead Man and Medusa
2. More About the Dead Man and Medusa
 
Edgar Allan Poe
The Sleeper
 
Charles Baudelaire
Metamorphoses of the Vampire
 
Tony Barnstone
The Revenant
 
George Gordon, Lord Byron
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