In time for Halloween: a one-of-a-kind hardcover collection of poems from ancien
t times to the present about ghosts, zombies, and vampires. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY P
OCKET POETS.
This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a sta
ggering array of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils. Our culture's current ob
session 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 si
nce we first began writing. The poetic evidence gathered here ranges from ancien
t Egyptian inscriptions and the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh to the Greek bard Ho
mer, and from Shakespeare and Milton and Keats to Emily Dickinson and Edgar Alla
n Poe. Here too are terrifying apparitions from a host of more recent poets, fro
m T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Rita Dove and Billy Collins, from Allen Ginsbe
rg and H. P. Lovecraft to Mick Jagger and Shel Silverstein. The result is a deli
ghtfully entertaining volume of spine-tingling poems for fans of horror and poet
ry both.
