Poems in Prose (Smith collection)


Poems in Prose is an illustrated collection of prose poems by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Donald Sidney-Fryer. It was released in 1965 and was published by Arkham House in an edition of 1,016 copies. The book is a nearly complete collection of Smith's prose poetry. French editor and critic Philippe Gindre called the book "the magnificent Poems in Prose."

Contents

Poems in Prose contains the following poems:
  • "Clark Ashton Smith, Poet in Prose", by Donald S. Fryer
  • "The Traveller"
  • "The Flower-Devil"
  • Images
  • *"Tears"
  • *"The Secret Rose"
  • *"The Wind and the Garden"
  • *"Offerings"
  • *"A Coronal"
  • "The Black Lake"
  • Vignettes
  • *"Beyond the Mountains"
  • *"The Broken Lute"
  • *"Nostalgia of the Unknown"
  • *"Grey Sorrow"
  • *"The Hair of Circe"
  • *"The Eyes of Circe"
  • "A Dream of Lethe"
  • "The Caravan"
  • "The Princess Almeena"
  • "Ennui"
  • "The Statue of Silence"
  • "Remoteness"
  • "The Memnons of the Night"
  • "The Garden and the Tomb"
  • "In Cocaigne"
  • "The Litany of the Seven Kisses"
  • "From a Letter"
  • "From the Crypts of Memory"
  • "A Phantasy"
  • "The Demon, the Angel, and the Beauty"
  • "The Shadows"
  • "The Crystals"
  • "Chinoiserie"
  • "The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony"
  • "The Muse of Hyperborea"
  • "The Lotus and the Moon"
  • "The Passing of Aphrodite"
  • "To the Daemon"
  • "The Forbidden Forest"
  • "The Mithridate"
  • "Narcissus"
  • "The Peril That Lurks Among the Ruins"
  • "The Abomination of Desolation"
  • "The Touchstone"
  • "The Image of Bronze and the Image of Iron"
  • "The Corpse and the Skeleton"
  • "The Sun and the Sepulchre"
  • "Sadastor"