| In Surrealities, SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston brings together 29 poems surreal and about surrealism. Along with seven poems appearing here for the first time, this volume includes reprints from leading genre and literary publications such as Chiaroscuro, Dreams and Nightmares, Paper Crow, The Pedestal Magazine, and Strange Horizons. Also includes six original and striking Rorschach illustrations Boston has created specially for this collection. “Here, the surreal beauty of a muscular mind, poems like evil flowers, cachinnating snow monkeys, blue-eyed chateaus, scarlet snails. Here, all the boats are drunk, all the architecture soft and hairy, all the nights lit by giraffe fire, butterfly blaze. Here, Bruce Boston – investigating an horizon first mapped by Celan and Eluard, Tanguy and Tanning – rummages through each tree’s drawer, behind perception’s door, to find disturbing but strangely familiar shapes for language, longing, and love.” --Bryan D. Dietrich, author of Universal Monsters “...an introduction to the uninitiated, a handbook for the journeyman seeking to gain mastery, and an intoxication to those of us who fancy ourselves connoisseurs of the strange.”–Lee Ballentine, author of Dream Protocols “Reading these poems is like embarking upon a trek through ‘the depths of dreams,’ the ‘infrastructure’ of the soul itself! I celebrate the release of this work, a collection to which I shall, no doubt, frequently return.”–John Amen, author of At the Threshold of Alchemy “At times furious in its assault on the senses. At times curious in its nonchalance. A master class on the motive/emotive powers of language.” –Robert Frazier, author of The Daily Chernobyl “I read this collection straight off and loved it. If you like your poetry with a strong taste of the weird, the unusual and over-the-edge bizarre, you have to read this book.”–Alan Catlin, author of The Insomniac's Gift |
| Dark Regions Press ISBN 978-1-937128-13-5 66 pages $9.95 Amazon Dark Regions Signed copies |
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