{"product_id":"winds-from-sheol-paperback","title":"Winds from Sheol - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFred Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnn K. Schwader\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this impressive follow-up to his previous poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eFrom the Cauldron\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), veteran poet Fred Phillips provides a generous smorgasbord of poems of fantasy, horror, and the macabre. Phillips's verse is marked by metrical precision, imaginative range, and a distinctive melding of brooding horror and emotional poignancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhillips draws upon the rich heritage of weird fiction with poems that reference the work of H. P. Lovecraft (\"The Voyage of Randolph Carter\"), William Hope Hodgson (\"The Launching of the \u003cem\u003eGlen Carrig\u003c\/em\u003e\"), J. R. R. Tolkien (\"Master and Pupil\"), and other pioneering writers. Elsewhere Phillips skillfully evokes the ancient gods of Egypt, India, Greece, Persia, and the Norsemen in poems that fling the imagination back to eras far distant from the mundane present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are in the midst of a spectacular renaissance of weird poetry, and Fred Phillips is a leading voice in this movement--a voice who can summon up dread in a couplet, but who can do far more than merely coin a shudder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen days feel leaden you must bear alone, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd save your conscience, none to whom to turn, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in your breast your heart has turned to stone, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor is there aught left that you still can learn, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust when you feel that all you've known must end, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere comes at last the handclasp of a friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e--from \"Solitude\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42714134085695,"sku":"9781614982074","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/370a0c6429196538778bea37069e67d6.webp?v=1765067105","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/winds-from-sheol-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}