The ageless D. Sidney-Fryer, who has been producing vital work in poetry, prose, and criticism since the 1960s, is back with another dynamic volume of miscellany that exhibits his wide range of interests. Leading off the volume is the novella Star Drek, an exquisite parody of the TV show Star Trek as it recounts the tribulations of a pair of men who run a “garbage scow in outer space.” This rollicking adventure spans the cosmos while reflecting the genial good humor characteristic of the author.
There follows a series of poems in prose and verse focusing on such wide-ranging subjects as Arthur Machen, ancient gods, painting, dance, and the rugged terrain of New England. “Cosmic Castaways” includes additional poems of a more pensive and wistful sort, while the section “Infinitude and Then Return Therefrom” features work of a philosophical cast and reflects the author’s decades-long interest in humanity’s place in the universe.
D. Sidney-Fryer has made a name for himself as a leading scholar on Clark Ashton Smith and other poets of fantasy and terror. But in this volume he himself emerges as a creative artist in his own right, taking the cosmos as the backdrop for his deft ventures into prose and verse.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Star Drek: A new series—Garbage Scows in Outer Space: a quiddity in prose
Astral Debris: Poems in Verse and Prose
The Toucan from Guinness
Cult after Cult
A Choice of Politics over Humanity
Ixaxar: I
Ixaxar: II
Ixaxar: III
Hermes, Mercury, or Thoth
For Derrick Hussey, Literary Entrepreneur
The Hidden Ones Among Us
Correspondence
The Case of the Light Fantastic Toe
“The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls”
Some Master Realists and Chief Illusionists
Realism or Fantasy or Both
Das Kapital
Justice for the True Cape Cod Folk
And on Towards Cocaigne
Twenty–Twenty
The Promise of Infinitude
Renaissance
An Humble Tribute To a Friend
The Spirit of the Rose
Cape Cod’s Uniqueness, by Paul Scannell
An Endless Coast
Sugarcane and Sugar-Coat
Contrary Motion
The Doré Vase in Golden Gate Park
Enquiry
Something So Small
Metaphysical or Less
Astral Debris
Whatevery, Whatnevery
A Bit of Whimsy à la Leah Bodine Drake
Inarticulate
An Awkward Choice
Some Writing Found on an Alley Wall
And/Or
The Lady Lass Who Makes Her Gardens Grow
Cosmic Castaways
Or/And
The Known Unknown
The Heart Remembers
The Little People
Elizabeth the Second: 2020
Unending Parables
Chess or Checkers, Which Came First?
Chess or Checkers
Puzzlement
Disjunctive Autobiographica
Exotical Preserve
Exotical in Perpetuity
Exotical Epiphany and Apotheosis
Dilemma
Soviet Scientist Morphs into Refugee
Infinitude and Then Return Therefrom
A Slob-ocrat
Nonsense or a Koan
And Yet Another Eden
Carnival or Nothing
Thesis and Antithesis
Forgotten Statue: I
Forgotten Statue: II
Forgotten Statue: III
Forgotten Statue: IV
Postscriptum and/or Codacil
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse
Country and City
Arse, Arsis, Thesis
With Arsis, Thesis, and Resolve
Morceau Number Fourteen
Farewell
Another Dilemma
Carousal, Carousel, Merry-Go-Round
Parnassus Revisited
The Concept of Cape Cod and the Islands
Elements of an Older Prosody
Spenser Stanza-Sonnet
This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 18 February, 2023.
