COLLECTED POEMS: NIGHTMARES AND VISIONS ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1981. Octavo, printed stiff wrappers. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy signed by Tierney to Dick (Richard) Fawcett, founder of the August Derleth Society, dated in the year of publication. P1030 copies printed. This collection of 67 poems "...established Tierney (b. 1936) as one of the leading weird poets of his his generation. [It] contains a variety of poems (many of them sonnets) displaying Tierney's absorption of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and others; some of the poems feature the misanthropic bitterness of Ambrose Bierce." - Joshi, Arkham 154. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-43. A fine copy. Uncommon signed or inscribed. (22799). Item #22799
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