Poet Laureates, Charles Simic and Mark Strand, compiles a selection of the finest translated literature of the time, showcasing the then-little-known writers who had a profound influence on the current generation of poets.

    ContentsAn Appreciation / essay by Frederik PohlThe Rocket of 1955 (1939)The Words of Guru (1941)The Only Thing We Learn (1949)The Adventurer (1953)The Little Black Bag (1950)The Luckiest Man in Denv (1952)The Silly Season (1950)The Remorseful (1953)Gomez (1954)The Advent on Channel Twelve (1958)The Marching Morons (1951)The Last Man Left in the Bar (1957)The Mindworm (1950)With These Hands (1951)Shark Ship (1958) = variant of Reap the Dark TideFriend to Man (1951)The Altar at Midnight (1952)Dominoes (1953)Two Dooms (1958)

    An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries.

    P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and Theodore Sturgeon.

    Spanning two thousand years—from the Book of Songs (circa 600 B.C.) to the chü form of the Yuan Dynasty (1260–1368)—these 150 poems cover all major genres that students of Chinese poetry must learn. Newly designed, the unique format of this volume will enhance its reputation as the definitive introduction to Chinese poetry, while its introductory essay on issues of Chinese aesthetics will continue to be an essential text on the problems of translating such works into English. Each poem is printed with the original Chinese characters in calligraphic form, coordinated with word-for-word annotations, and followed by an English translation. Correcting more than a century of distortion of the classical Chinese by translators unconcerned with the intricacies and aesthetics of the Chinese language, these masterful translations by Wai-lim Yip, a noted and honored translator and scholar, allow English readers to enter more easily into the dynamic of the original poems. Each section of the volume is introduced by a short essay on the mode or genre of poem about to be presented and is followed by a comprehensive bibliography.

    

    published ... to commemorate the 33rd World Science Fiction Convention held in Melbourne, August 1975' Contents: 7 • Foreword: The Bad News and the Good • (1976) • essay by Isaac Asimov11 • Idiot Stick • (1958) • shortstory by Damon Knight24 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin47 • The Commuter • (1953) • shortstory by Philip K. Dick59 • The Oath • (1960) • novelette by James Blish77 • Takeover Bid • (1965) • novelette by John Baxter94 • Comes Now the Power • (1966) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny100 • Litterbug • (1969) • novelette by Tony Morphett117 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith138 • A Song Before Sunset • (1976) • shortstory by David Grigg149 • Sundance • (1969) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg163 • The Oh in Jose • (1966) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of The O in José) [as by Brian Aldiss ]172 • The Man Who Came Early • (1956) • novelette by Poul Anderson194 • Call Him Lord • (1966) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson213 • The Garden of Time • (1962) • shortstory by J. G. BallardSUBJECTS

    Howard - creator of some of the greatest worlds of heroic fantasy and nightmare horror ever conceived by the mind of manH.P. Lovecraft described Howard as a master of description of vast megalithic cities of the elder world, around whose dark towers and labyrinthine nether vaults lingers an aura of pre-human fear and necromancy which no other writer could duplicate.In the three volumes of Skull-Face Omnibus published by Panther Books you will find a nerve-tautening gallery of tales of superhuman savagery and supernatural evil, Journey back into long-lost eons of time and across frontiers of the occult with one of the greatest masters of the century, Robert E. Howard.A classic collection of tales from the Golden Age of fantasy and horrorCover illustration: Chris Achilleos

    Additional editors are Joan Keefe, Deirdre Lashgari, and Kathleen Weaver.Forward by Adrienne Rich.