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COLLECTED POEMS: NIGHTMARES AND VISIONS ...

Tierney, Richard L.

[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1981. Octavo, illustrations by Jason Van Hollander, printed wrappers. First edition. 1030 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. "His five translations from Charles Baudelaire are important." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-43. A fine copy. (#169291) (29951). Item #29951

Price: $150.00