A Bard Out of Time and Other Poems (2nd Ed.) (ePub)
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Many of the poems in the second edition are the same as they were in the first edition. However, while I was rereading them, I tweaked some of the stanzas to make the meter more consistent (mainly in "A Bard Out of Time") and twiddled with the wording of others. The rest of the poems were moved from my other collections while I reorganized them or were written after I published my last poetry collection in 2016. These additional poems led to splitting the original "Other Poems" section into three categories: Fantasy Poems, Horror Poems, and (new to this edition) Science Fiction Poems.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he played Dungeons and Dragons, read fantasy novels, and wrote fantasy short stories. He was also influenced by country music, particularly ballads, and wrote a number of short fantasy ballads that were later incorporated into the long poem "A Bard Out of Time."
In the mid-1990s, college and work did not leave him much time for writing, and he mainly wrote poetry. It was during this period that he learned how to write sonnets and became obsessed with them. Since he was focused on developing the craft of poetry, it was a recurring theme in many of the poems from this period ("Of Muse and Pen"); however, as a student of psychology, psychological disorders were also of interest to him, and he wrote several sonnets about them ("Potluck: What's Left Over"). He also began to submit his poems for publication, and several appeared in various small press publications between 1994 and 1997.
Most of the poems appearing in "Love & Annoyance" (both the love poems and the speculative poems) were written while he was a student (1994-2004), and relate to his romantic misadventures and his discovery of philosophy, the proverbial love of his life.
The poems in "A Field of Snow and Other Flights of Fancy" do not fit into a specific period; they are humorous poems reflecting momentary insights or playful jests, which can happen at any time. However, most were written before 1999.
In 1999, his interest shifted to writing science fiction short stories. Most of these stories were a response to a simple question: Why
In 2003, he discovered the poetry of Ai as part of a project for a poetry workshop. Ai is known for her persona poems written from the perspective of serial killers, murderers, abusers, and other nasty characters. Her work inspired...
- Autor: Robert P. Hansen
- 2023, Englisch
- Verlag: Robert P. Hansen
- ISBN-10: 821598844X
- ISBN-13: 9798215988442
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.04.2023
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