DARK ROADS: SELECTED LONG POEMS 1971-2012 by HWA Member Bruce Boston
Author: Bruce Boston
DARK ROADS: SELECTED LONG POEMS 1971-2012
Long_Synopsis: Considered one of the leading genre/speculative poets for more than a quarter century, Bruce Boston has received the Bram Stoker Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Asimovâ s Readers Award, the Rhysling Award, and the first Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Dark Roads collects the best of his long dark poems from more than forty years of publishing. Strikingly illustrated by acclaimed artist M. Wayne Miller, these poems range from direct narratives to surreal explorations of time, memory, obsession and transformation. Includes two Rhysling Winners and three Rhysling Finalists.
Selected from Boston’s dazzling canon of exquisitely crafted speculative poems, Dark Roads collects a group of longer poems over a period of forty years in this stunning volume opulently illustrated by celebrated artist M. Wayne Miller. A dark sorcery of language ensnares the reader in fully realized wordscapes. One can almost feel the psyche tilt and bend toward the printed page while reading these 31 extraordinary poems. It is a very dark ride, indeed. — J. L. Comeau, Creature Feature Reviews
Dark Roads is a collection of poems spanning Bruce Boston’s long and illustrious writing career. They have been gathered in one volume and give readers an amazing peek into the depth and power of Boston’s writing. His work is fierce, ferocious, haunting, poignant, and emotive. Hope, despair, anger, and fear are there. It’s what dark poetry is meant to be. ——– Drake Morgan, Monster Librarian
Of course Bruce Boston is brilliant. One cannot read his poems and fail to understand this. Boston’s imagery is strong and complicated. His stories stretch the imagination and challenge your reading skills. Note that I said stories. Boston’s poetry is a collision of the lyrical, the poetic, poetic prose and storytelling. I wonder if poetry is the right definition for Boston’s work. Maybe we need to coin a new term. Poetic story? Lyrical Storytelling? Why not? I think that to call what Bruce Boston creates for us poetry or even speculative poetry is to misunderstand the work. — Clayton Bye, The Deepening
Publisher: Dark Renaissance Books
Release Date: August 2013
