The Lesions of Genetic Sin [Paperback]

Bruce Boston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000

71 line narrative poem published as limited edition broadside of 125 signed and numbered copies. 4 panel accordion fold interior mounted inside folder.

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"The Lesions of Genetic Sin is hallucinogenic and surreal. A poem of gossamer layering, of speculations upon genetics and the soul, of inward and outward searching, of the blurring of distinctions between the living and the dead in a brave new world more strange than that of Mr. Huxley's most enlightened nightmare." -- G. O. Clark, Star*Line 23.2

About the Author

Bruce Boston is the author of 24 books of fiction and poetry, including the novel Stained Glass Rain. His stories and poems have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Amazing, Asimov's SF, Science Fiction Age, The Twilight Zone, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Weird Tales, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and The Nebula Awards Anthology. He has won the Rhysling Award for Science Fiction Poetry a record 6 times, and the Asimov Readers' Award for Poetry a record 3 times. In 1999, the Science Fiction Poetry Association awarded him with their first ever Grand Master Poet Award. His autobiographical essay "Fifteen Explanations in Search of a Life" can be found in the Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 30, Gale, 1999.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Miniature Sun Press (January 1, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0967666600
• ISBN-13: 978-0967666600
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,805,305 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Three-time Bram Stoker Award winner Bruce Boston is the author of forty-five books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener's Tale and Stained Glass Rain. His fiction and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications, most visibly in Asimov's SF Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Nebula Awards Showcase. In addition to the Bram Stoker Award, Boston has received a Pushcart Prize, the Asimov's Readers Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon. For more information, you can visit his website at http://www.bruceboston.com/.

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3.0 out of 5 stars On Bruce Boston's "The Lesions of Genetic Sin", June 22, 2011

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This review is from: The Lesions of Genetic Sin (Paperback)

An evocative broadside-length piece about mutation. Mutation of men, the dead, and probably the ones in between. "The Lesions of Genetic Sin" is a breathtaking long poem that has all the makings of a snow globe: deceptively lightweight, and once shaken violently, it reveals its beauty. Not to mention that it includes the most original of wordplays: "bodysalt," "vile-urchin-argot graffiti," and the sensual "corolla's velvet violet insistence..."