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.