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Poems Dead and Undead

Tony Barnstone & Michelle Mitchell-Foust

First published 2014
Publisher Everyman's Library (UK)
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Camelli
Pages 256
Price ÂŁ9.99
ISBN 9781841597997

  • Attached marker ribbon.
  • Front of jacket artwork titled "Fear", from a postcard.
  • Back of jacket artwork from the "Gringonneur" tarot pack, 15th century Italian.
  • Arranged in three sections: "The Corporeal Undead", "The Incorporeal Undead" and "Devils, Gods, Angels, Death".
  • All poems with no known author are credited to "Anon." except "The Dead King Eats the Gods", which is credited to "Egyptian Pyramid Text".
  • Poems with unknown or no prior publication: Bryan Dietrich, "Zombies"; William Baer, "All Hallows Eve"; Tony Barnstone's translation of "Dead Hoodlums", "The Whale", and "Enkidu's Dream of the Underworld"; Jim Stewart, "Count Orlok"; Derek Dew, "(Weathervane) Pirate Ship of the Dead"; Amin Esmaielpour, "Zahhak's Burning Tehran"; Claire Wang-Lee and Michelle Mitchell-Foust's translation of "The Oldest Legend of Ancestors"; HĂ©lène Cardona, "To Kitty, Who Loved the Sea and Somerset Maugham"; Willis Barnstone, "God of the Gas Chambers, Where Are You Hiding?"

Year Reviewer Publication
2015 Joshua Gage Star*Line, Summer 2015

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Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Introduction: One Foot Out of the Grave Tony Barnstone & Michelle Mitchell-Foust Essay
23 Depraved Cogitation Henry Israeli Poem
25 Night of the Living, Night of the Dead Kim Addonizio Poem
27 Der Totentanz (The Dance of the Dead) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem
30 Zombies Bryan Dietrich Poem
32 Dead Man's Hate Robert E. Howard Poem
35 Puck's Nighttime Speech (from "A Midsummer Night's Dream") William Shakespeare Poem
36 On Two of Signorelli's Frescoes Eugene Lee Hamilton Poem
38 The Book of the Dead Man (Medusa) Marvin Bell Poem
41 The Sleeper Edgar Allan Poe Poem
44 Metamorphoses of the Vampire Charles Baudelaire Poem
46 The Revenant Tony Barnstone Poem
47 From "The Giaour" George Gordon, Lord Byron Poem
49 All Hallows Eve William Baer Poem
53 The Death of Dracula (A Song from "AIDS: The Musical") Michael Hulse Poem
56 Sarah Winchester, 23 Years Dead, Watches House of Dracula Alexandra Teague Poem
58 Blade, The Daywalker Tim Seibles Poem
60 Blade, Historical Tim Seibles Poem
62 The Vampire Conrad Aiken Poem
67 Count Orlok Jim Stewart (Canada) Poem
69 My Childhood Nightmares Unfolded in Serial Narrative Tony Trigilio Poem
71 The View from Harold Way Sarah Maclay Poem
75 Dead Hoodlums Jorge Luis Borges Poem
76 Ghost Tango Sholeh Wolpé Poem
77 Words for Spring Alan Michael Parker Poem
80 In the Dust Matthew Sweeney Poem
81 The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill Hayden Carruth Poem
83 Nocturne Li-Young Lee Poem
84 We Are Seven William Wordsworth Poem
88 I Last Saw My Mother Gary Young Poem
89 No. 670 (One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—) Emily Dickinson Poem
90 Haunted Charles Harper Webb Poem
92 Ghost House Robert Frost Poem
94 Daniel David Orr Poem
95 From "Little Gidding" T. S. Eliot Poem
99 Paint David Daniel (I) Poem
100 The Shadow on the Stone Thomas Hardy Poem
101 Goodbye to a Poltergeist Mark Jarman Poem
103 I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee Howard Nemerov Poem
105 The Ghost of King Hamlet (from "Hamlet") William Shakespeare Poem
108 Labuntur et Imputantur Ciarán Carson Poem
109 Voices from the Other World James Merrill Poem
111 From "The Invisible" Charles Simic Poem
112 Ghosts Anne Sexton Poem
113 Ghost Harold Pinter Poem
114 The White Ghosts Richard Garcia Poem
116 Hotel Window Edward Hirsch Poem
118 The Apparition John Donne Poem
119 Gas-Lamp Ghost Richard Hunt Poem
120 As If a Phantom Caress'd Me Walt Whitman Poem
121 The Inheritance D. H. Lawrence Poem
123 The Unquiet Grave uncredited Poem
125 Sonnet 23: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint John Milton Poem
126 (Weathervane) Pirate Ship of the Dead Derek Dew Poem
127 Blue Dementia Yusef Komunyakaa Poem
129 The Ghosts (from "The Song of Hiawatha") Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem
132 Great-Grandmother's Young Ghost Molly Peacock Poem
133 In Order to Talk with the Dead Jorge Teillier Poem
134 The Panther William Stobb Poem
137 Incantation of the Spirits of Earth and Air (from "Manfred") George Gordon, Lord Byron Poem
140 From "The Ghosts of the Buffaloes" Vachel Lindsay Poem
143 The Dead King Eats the Gods uncredited Poem
149 From "Zahhak's Burning Tehran" Amin Esmaielpour Poem
154 From Hell, Mister Lusk Michelle Mitchell-Foust Poem
156 Canto XIII: The Wood of Suicides (from "The Inferno") Dante Alighieri Poem
161 Night of Hell Arthur Rimbaud Poem
163 Satan's Speech to the Fallen Angels (From "Paradise Lost") John Milton Poem
168 The Gardener Stephen Dobyns Poem
171 Mephistopheles Boris Pasternak Poem
173 Nemesis H. P. Lovecraft Poem
176 Howl, Part II Allen Ginsberg Poem
179 The Whale (From "The Middle English Physiologus") Anonymous Poem
181 The Whale Bishop Theobaldus Poem
183 From "The Devil's Walk" Robert Southey & Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem
187 Lucifer in Starlight George Meredith Poem
188 From "Faust" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem
191 Hades' Pitch Rita Dove Poem
192 Devil's Tattoo Nuala NĂ­ Dhomhnaill Poem
194 In the Pines David St. John (I) Poem
200 Demons Alexander Pushkin Poem
203 Deus Ex Machina Jennifer Clement Poem
205 From "The Oldest Legend of Ancestors" (Oral epic of the De Ang people) Anonymous Poem
210 Sonnet 100 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke Poem
211 The Second Coming William Butler Yeats Poem
212 Beast from the Sea (From "The Book of Revelation") Anonymous Poem
214 The World Christina Rossetti Poem
215 Incubus Charles Baudelaire Poem
216 Enkidu's Dream of the Underworld (From "The Epic of Gilgamesh) Anonymous Poem
218 The Land of the Dead (from "The Odyssey") Homer Poem
220 Address (From "Suite for Emily") Lynda Hull Poem
223 No. 712 (Because I Could Not Stop for Death) Emily Dickinson Poem
225 Flute Playing the Death of Thisbe (from "A Midsummer Night's Dream") William Shakespeare Poem
226 Death, to the Dead for Evermore Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
226 Skeleton Suzanne Roberts (poet) Poem
227 Instructions for a Journey Grace Schulman Poem
230 The Angel Opened Dana Curtis Poem
231 Questions about Angels Billy Collins Poem
233 Isis Unveiled Edward Hirsch Poem
235 To Kitty, Who Loved the Sea and Somerset Maugham Hélène Cardona Poem
236 Halo C. K. Williams Poem
239 From "Psalm 18" King David Poem
241 God of the Gas Chambers, Where Are You Hiding? Willis Barnstone Poem
242 The Refinery Robert Pinsky Poem
245 Monsters I've Met Shel Silverstein Poem

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Poems Dead and Undead Cover 2014 Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover Anthology Camelli 256