Clark Ashton Smith
Birth date: January 13, 1893
Died: August 14, 1961
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This was a really solid collection of weird poetry! My favorites were The Morning Pool, Ode to Music, The Maze of Sleep, The Masque of Forsaken Gods, and A Live-Oak Leaf. I particularly loved Smith's use of imagery, rhythm, and rhyme.
Clark Ashton Smith is a name that exists at the periphery of science fiction and fantasy lore, a name often evoked but rarely read. He is sometimes dismissed as an imitator of Lovecraft; at other times, as a writer whose exotic, hot-house prose often carried him away from his subjects. Yet the title...
I've spoken before about the constant invention and reinvention of the 'Mystical East' in Western fiction, but by and large, the reason authors do this isn't to malign the East, or to produce propaganda--these are just the secondary results--indeed, it isn't really about the East at all, it's about ...
This last volume in the Collected Fantasies loses a point for the weakness in Smith's latter tales, especially those after the early 1930's. It is clear that Smith just didn't have the spark anymore once he was not financially bound to getting stories published. A strange situation, opposite probabl...
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