Sensuous Debris: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 [Paperback]

Bruce Boston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1995

Fifty-nine of the best poems by the first Grand Master chosen by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Reprinted from the pages of Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Aboriginal SF, Weird Tales, the Nebula Awards anthology, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and other leading genre publications. This collection includes four Rhysling winners and two Asimov Readers Award winners and one Aboriginal SF Boomerang Award winner. Introduction by t. winter-damon. [NOTE: 5 of the 59 poems also appear in The Complete Accursed Wives] Rhysling Award Winner, Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot Nominee, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...a fine mix of imagery and captivating stories told lyrically...chamring and inventive... -- -Honna Swenson, TALEBONES, 1996

...a violent hyperspatial jukebox lit up with 31st century hits...crackling, hopped-up, lushly colored...chill darknesses and cosmic highs. -- -Andrew Darlington, FANTASY COMMENTATOR

...poems span a long highly acclaimed career...some of the best work of one of the best genre poets. -- -Frida Westford, FOSFOX, April 1996

Accursed Wives: Curse Of The Angel's Wife
Accursed Wives: Curse Of The Devil's Wife
Accursed Wives: Curse Of The Ghost's Wife
Accursed Wives: Curse Of The Shapeshifter's Wife
Accursed Wives: Curse Of The Telepath's Wife
Against The Ebon Rush Of Night
Alchemical Texts: The Alchemist In Place
Alchemical Texts: The Alchemist In Transit
Alchemical Texts: The Alchemist Is Born In A Sudden Changing........
Alchemical Texts: The Alchemist Takes A Lover..........
Alchemical Texts: Tongues
America Comes
And Soon A Wolf For Every Door
The Berserker Enters A Plea On The Death Of Greater Los Angeles
Beyond Procreation
Beyond The Edge Of Alien Desire
Born A Royal Beast
Breath Falls And Is Not Stone
Cantos For A Common Tongue, Sels
Dead Heat
Defeat At The Hands Of Alien Scholars
Don't Drink The Sky At Myrmidon
Dream Webs
The Evolution Of The Death Murals
For S[acer Snarled In The Hair Of Comets
The Ftl Addict Fixes
Gaea Dentata
Horses Of Light
Human Remains: Denizens
Human Remains: The Cyborg
Human Remains: The Mutant Lovers
If Gravity Were Like Weather
In The Darkened Hours
In The Eyes Of The Pilot
In The Wake Of Sensuous Debris
The Last Existentialist: If The Last Existentialist
The Last Existentialist: The Last Existentialist Eats
The Last Existentialist: The Last Existentialist Needs
The Last Existentialist: When The Last Existentialist
Mean Time 2000
The Muse As Lover Gone On Vacation
The Naming Of Teas
The Nativity Of Thought
Night Flight
The Nightmare Collector
No Longer The Stars
Of Time And The Sidereal Shore
Old Robots Are The Worst
Polar Chronologies: Down Flashing
Polar Chronologies: Up Flashing
Spacer's Compass
The Stardrifter Grounded
Tale Of The Crone Goddess
The Tiger Does Not Know
The Walnut Dark Sea Is Blooming Swiftly
The Wave We Ride
What Trees Dream About In Their Prodigious Silence
When Silver Plums Fall
A Wrecker's Tale
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Boston's writing is sinuous and layered with glistening narratives that have a kind of Broges-like compression. -- -D. S. Black, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, December 1995

If poetry is the new rock and roll...Boston is its Elvis, its Dylan, its Jagger, its Zappa... -- -Tony Lee, DRAGON'S BREATH (UK), November 1995 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Talisman Books (September 1995)
• ISBN-10: 9995793377
• ISBN-13: 978-9995793371
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,927,400 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/.