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Notes from the Shadow City Online kdgsL (Read free ebook) Notes From the Shadow City Online [kdgsL.ebook] Notes From the Shadow City Pdf Free Gary William Crawford ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #2159890 in Books Crawford Gary William 2016-04-15Original language:English 8.50 x .24 x 5.50l, .29 #File Name: 162641166294 pagesNotes from the Shadow City | File size: 16.Mb Gary William Crawford : Notes From the Shadow City before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Notes From the Shadow City: 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Monstrous, haunting, lyricalBy Books Lovers Never Go to Bed AloneModern poetry is a very challenging animal. In the post-modernist wake, form, style, and function have been tossed to the wind in favor of a less structured approach. At times this can feel a bit like anarchy as I wade through it. Modern genre poetry is even more difficult as it fuses the elements of genre onto this chaotic new world. When Notes from the Shadow City came across my desk, I paused. A poetry collection from two different poets telling a story... are you confused yet?But as I read, the light of understanding went on. Granted, Crawford and Boston took on a daunting task. They had a story to tell. Shadow City is a place, both real and unreal. It's a mysterious world sinister monks, secret police, evil experiments, and dark souls. This could have been a novel, but the poetic form allows for a subtle exploration that captives the reader in a way a novel cannot. Poetry is about a single line or a single word used to convey a thousand thoughts. There is no narrative explanation or dialogue to define a character's motivations. Crawford and Boston build a world on a tightrope of words and we believe. "Creatures of a hive mind" tell us more than a chapter of narrative about this dark place. It's a place where "where songs are sung/ with the tuneless solidity/ of ancient cantos" and we hear those songs just beyond our own reality.As a fan of the Gothic poets, modern poetry and I have not often found a comfortable place. Genre poetry has been even less satisfying as far too much of it falls into the descriptive rather than the imaginative. Notes from the Shadow City defies convention and sweeps the reader into its monstrous, haunting, lyrical bowels.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. ""The line failing/mendicants grows/longer and longer/as time dissolves/in life-lost minutes."By J from NYI can appreciate and even love the most experimental poetry out there, but Bruce Boston and Gary William Crawford's "Notes From The Shadow City" makes me appreciate the bare bones of what Gothic poetry can do without need of recourse to novelty or prosodic glitter.The poets narrate in casually horrific stanza the birth of maintenance of "The Shadow City", an abortive psychic malfeasance which may be real or imaginary--it doesn't really matter. "They made him swim in the burning lake/with his hands cut off', writes Crawford."In Line at the Shadow City pharmacy" by Bruce Boston describes the tremulous and suffering denizens of the iron wrought, T.S. Eliot like nightmare:Some are bent with age.They inch forwardon shadow walkers.Others are obese,their shadows bloominglike rain-swollen clouds.Or they are terribly frail,their shadows like sticksthat jerk and twitch."This is a beautifully ruinous collection for fans of the *real* Gothic era in poetry. Unpretentious, more than a bit like the well-aged "City of Dreadful Night" by James Thomson.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Gothic Readers Book Club SelectionBy Gothic Readers Book ClubSometimes we here at the Gothic Readers Book Club feel that true Gothic poetry is a dead art. No pun intended. Lord Byron and his ilk proved that verse could convey as much intensity and passion as narrative, but modern writers don't seem to feel the same. Dark poetry is in an even worse state than general poetry. Gary Crawford and Bruce Boston restored our faith. Notes from the Shadow City explores the darkest depth of an imaginary city through verse. From siren songs to pure evil to the shadows themselves, the rhythms and phrases seduce you into the underbelly. The words chill, enthrall, enchant, and horrify. Byron would be proud.If You LIke: Byron, Shelley, ColeridgeGothic Readers Book Club does not receive payment for reviews. All books are promotional copies. ldquo;In Notes from the Shadow City, Crawford and Boston distill a bleak dystopian vision. Alone or together, and utilizing poetry, prose, and photographic images, they have crafted a guidebook, a Baedeker to the same outliers as chronicled by Dostoyevsky, Kafka, and Orwell, where shadows are more real than the gnomons that cast them, and the predominant colors come from the stripped-down underside of the rainbow.rdquo; mdash;Robert Borski, author of Blood Wallah and Other Poems ldquo;Like grim guides of the underworld, Boston and Crawford lead you into a terrifying landscape of tragedy and tyranny. At times morbid, despairing, inspiring, and hauntingly beautiful, the Shadow City etches itself into your mind with lonely, tormented characters and their tragic fates.rdquo; mdash;Anders Monsen, Editor, Prometheus ldquo;Bostonrsquo;s and Crawfordrsquo;s voices meld beautifully to create dark music. Notes from the Shadow City will echo in your nightmares.rdquo; mdash;Linda D. Addison, Bram-Stoker-Award- winning author of Being Full of Light, Insubstantial ldquo;To say that reading Notes from the Shadow City is a delight might be misleading; to say that it is unsettling, disconcerting, provocative, and remarkable is to scratch the surface of the shadows and begin to reveal the genius beneath.rdquo; mdash;from the introduction by Michael R. Collings, author of The House beyond the Hill From the AuthorBram Stoker Award Finalist, 2012, Elgin Award Finalist, 2012About the AuthorBruce Boston lives in Ocala, Florida, once known as the City of Trees, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon, and the ghosts of two cats. He is the author of fifty books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener's Tale and Stained Glass Rain. His poetry and fiction have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Asimov's SF Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Nebula Awards Showcase. One of the leading genre poets for more than a quarter century, Boston has won the Bram Stoker Award for Poetry, the Asimov's Readers Award for Poetry, and the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, each a record number of times. His fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Novel Award and the Micro Award for flash fiction. Gary William Crawford (born 1953) is an American writer and small press publisher. He is the founder and editor of Gothic Press, which since 1979 has published books and periodicals in the field of Gothic literature. From 1979 to 1987, Crawford produced six issues of the journal Gothic, which features articles on Gothic fiction from 1764 to 1986. Later, the press published the horror poetry magazine Night Songs. In recent years, the press has published The Gothic Chapbook Series, which features pamphlets of fiction, poetry and scholarship. He has numerous poems, stories, and articles in the small press. Crawford has recently begun the online journal, Le Fanu Studies, about ghost and mystery story writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and is compiling Internet databases on Le Fanu, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Campbell, Walter de la Mare and Robert Aickman. 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