Bøger af Frank Coffman

THE LYCANTHROPICON: Imaginings & Images of the Werewolf is the third in a series of themed anthologies from Mind's Eye Publications. It follows THE GARGOYLICON and THE VAMPIRICON and precedes THE PHANTOMICON (projected release 2025). The series presents short fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and illustration/art on these various Speculative, Weird, and Horrific supernatural entities.THE LYCANTHROPICON presents a cornucopia of contemporary visions of the werewolf from a multi-national group of writers and illustrators. For any interested in this creature of legend and lore, the book is a satisfying new look at an ancient subject.

Frank Coffman has rendered 327 quatrains from the traditional "Rubáiyát" of Omar Khayyám into a new version in English verse. Differently phrased in many ways from the famous translation by Edward FitzGerald, Coffman's version is transposed from the great prose translation by Justin Huntly McCarthy. It presents the classic work by the famous Persian astronomer, mathematician, and poet in a new light for a new millennium of readers."Frank Coffman's renderings of Khayyam's 'Rubáiyát' are a poetic triumph: Here the classic Persian quatrains are transformed into clean and radiant stanzas, each of which sparkles like a gemstone neatly cut and polished. Coffman's masterful prosodist's touch acts as a clarifying agent, drawing out the beauty inherent in the poetry as if through some form of lapidary alchemy. More than this technical achievement (and perhaps more importantly), Coffman's 'Rubáiyát' is simply a pleasure to read. The verse pours from the page deliriously, like the ruby red wine to which so many of Khayyam's stanzas refer." Oliver Sheppard, poet and author of "Thirteen Nocturnes""Englishing the 'Rubáiyát' after FitzGerald might be viewed as a light inteliectual game, but Frank Coffman brings to the task the craft and rigor of real work. Fortunately, however, he has not left out the ludic, playful aspects of Khayyam's Persian verses. This is a new translation for a new century." Steven Withrow, poet and author of "The Sun Ships & Other Poems"

Frank Coffman's fourth major collection of speculative verse in the genres of Weird, Horrific Supernatural, Fantasy, and Science Fiction.

This is Frank Coffman's second large collection of speculative poetry. As before, the verses herein cross the spectrum of Weird Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Adventure and include examples from sub-genres of these modes of the high imagination.Following his chapbook, This Ae Nighte, Every Nighte and Alle (2018) and his acclaimed magnum opus, The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems (2019), this collection of 93 poems (six sequences of poems: sonnet sequences, a "megasonnet" sequence, a sequence in an Old Irish metric, etc) continues in the same tradition.A formalist whose rhymed and metered verses follow in the tradition of the exemplary work of the great early Weird Tales poets such as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Donald Wandrei, and Leah Bodine Drake, he is also a great experimentor with a broad variety of exotic and cross-cultural forms and an innovative creator of several new ones.His poetry has been published in several magazines, including Spectral Realms, Weirdbook, The Audient Void, Abyss & Apex, Gathering Storm, Phatasmagoria and Lovedraftiana; and in anthologies such as Quoth the Raven, Caravan's Awry, and Sounds of the Night.

Frank Coffman has compiled a substantial collection of 265 poems of verse in his book. The poems cover the gamut of the genres of speculative poetry of the high imagination: Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, and even Detection. Other sections of the book explore the range of subjects in the Weird, Horrific, and Supernatural. The Coven's Hornbook also contains a section of ekphrastic poems - tributes to works in other art forms; a group of homages to admired fellow poets; and a section of "metapoetry" with poems on the subject of poetry itself and some thoughts on the writing of verse.

THE GARGOYLICON: IMAGININGS AND IMAGES OF THE GARGOYLE IN LITERATURE AND ART is a compendium of visions and unique perspectives on this intriguing and enigmatic figure. Beyond its function as a water spout to send potentially damaging rain water away from walls and foundations of buildings, it has also been seen as both a symbol of Evil forces and, in seeming contradiction, as a protector against the same. Was it meant to also frighten the unbeliever into faith and keeping the "straight and narrow path," or, perhaps, to attract pagans due to its grotesque and monstrous appearance-the stuff of their legends?The poetry, fiction, and art in this tome offer a great variety of perspectives upon and interpretations of these wonders.

This is the first anthology from THE WEIRD POETS SOCIEtY, a Facebook group open only to published poets in the various areas of Speculative and Higly Imaginative Literature. It represents a fine sampling of the range of topics and poetic styles of several of the members. It is hoped that this will become an annual anthology. This one represents poetry published in 2018 or not previously published.