Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman

by Tony Barnstone

Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman brings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages. Humans have always defined themselves by imagining the inhuman; the gloriously gruesome monsters that enliven our literary legacy haunt us by reflecting our own darkest possibilities. The poems gathered here range in focus from extreme examples of human monstrousness--murderers, cannibals, despotic Byzantine empresses--to the creatures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375712402
• ISBN13: 9780375712401
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.3" x 6.7"