SMITH, CLARK ASHTON — Selected Poems

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 9997546156. Limited to 2000 copies (actually 2118 copies) . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some beginning rubbing to the spine edges. "Though Smith primarily considered himself a poet, having turned to prose for the meager financial sum it rewarded, his prose might best be appreciated as a "fleshed" out poetry. In this light, plot and characters are subservient to the milieu of work: a setting of cold quiet reality, which, mixed with the erotic and the exotic, places his work within its own unique, phantasmagoric genre. While he also experimented in painting, sculpture, and translation, it is in his written work that his legacy persists. During his lifetime, Smith\'s work appeared commonly in the pulps alongside other masters such H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and E. Hoffmann Price and like many great artists, recognition and appreciation have come posthumously. In recent decades though, a resurgence of interest in his works has lead to numerous reprintings as well as scholarly critiques. " (eldritch dark website). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .