Collected Poems (Tierney) Explained

Collected Poems: Nightmares and Visions
Author:	Richard L. Tierney
Illustrator:	Jason Van Hollander
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	poetry
Publisher:	Arkham House
Release Date:	1981
Media Type:	Print (Paperback)
Pages:	ix, 82 pp
Isbn:	0-87054-092-0
Dewey:	813/.54 19
Congress:	PS3570.I332 C6
Oclc:	7576918

Collected Poems: Nightmares and Visions is a collection of poems by Richard L. Tierney. It was released in 1981 by Arkham House in an edition of 1,030 copies. The book is illustrated by Jason Van Hollander. The poems had previously appeared in such magazines as The Arkham Collector, Whispers, Nyctalops, Macabre, The Diversifier, Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror, Ambrosia, Dark Messenger Reader, Myrrdin, Fantasy Crossroads and others.

Literary historian Don Herron has stated that the collection presents Tierney as "one of the most technically accomplished sonneteers of his generation, able to bring rhyming forms to bear on his own concerns, such as the especially nihilistic concluding poem "To the Hydrogen Bomb".^[1]

Contents

Collected Poems contains the following poems:

1. "A Man in the Crowd"
2. "The Altar"
3. "Sabbat"
4. "In Halls of Fantasy"
5. "To Gorice XII, King in Carcë"
6. "Night Visitant"
7. "The Nereid"
8. "The Dreadful City"
9. "The Madness of the Oracle"
10. "The Moon of Endless Night"
11. "Hate"
12. "The Scrolls"
13. "Jack the Ripper"
14. "Moubata"
15. "The Garret-Room"
16. "In Evil Dreams"
17. "The Hills"
18. "The Volcano"
19. "Demon-Star"
20. "The Pinnacles"
21. "Zarria"
22. "The Shadow"
23. "Star-Dreams"
24. "The Mountain"
25. "The Sleeper"
26. "The Pilgrimage"
27. "The Vengeance of Earth"
28. "The Evil House"
29. "Homesickness"
30. "A Vision on a Midsummer Night"
31. "Fulfillment"
32. "The Doom Prophet"
33. "Found in a Storm-Destroyed Lighthouse"
34. "Gods"
35. "Tahuantin-Suyu"
36. "Sonnet to a Box Elder Bug"
37. "The Legend"
38. "Yahweh"
39. "Mountains of Madness"
40. "Carcosa"
41. "The Wendigo"
42. "To Great Cthulhu"
43. "Carpathian Dream"
44. "The Swamp Dweller"
45. "To Mount Sinai"
46. "Dream"
47. "Escape"
48. "Beyond the Maze"
49. "Zora Rach Nam Psarrion"
50. "The Image"
51. "The Great City"
52. "Optimism"
53. "The Jewels"
54. "Giantess"
55. "The Cat"
56. "The Balcony"
57. "To a Girl Who is Too Gay"
58. "Minas Morgul"
59. "Mordor"
60. "Hope"
61. "Illusion"
62. "A Glimpse of Hell"
63. "Contempt"
64. "The Serpent-Men"
65. "Enchantress"
66. "Prayer to Zathog"
67. "To the Hydrogen Bomb"

References

• Book: Jaffery, Sheldon . Sheldon Jaffery

. Sheldon Jaffery . The Arkham House Companion . Mercer Island, WA . Starmont House, Inc.. 1126–127. 1989 . 1-55742-005-X.

• Book: Chalker, Jack L. . Jack L. Chalker

. Jack L. Chalker . Mark Owings . The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 . Westminster, MD and Baltimore . Mirage Press, Ltd.. 53–54. 1998.

• Book: Joshi, S.T. . S.T. Joshi

. S.T. Joshi . Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography . Sauk City, WI . Arkham House. 148–149 . 1999 . 0-87054-176-5.

• Book: Nielsen, Leon . Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide . Jefferson, NC and London . McFarland & Company, Inc.. 127–128 . 2004 . 0-7864-1785-4.

Notes and References

1. Don Herron, "Richard L(ouis) Tierney" in S.T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemanowicz, eds, Supernatural Literature of the World, Westport & london: Greenwood Press (3 vols), 2005, pp. 1116-1117.