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| Author | Richard L. Tierney |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Jason Van Hollander |
| Language | English |
| Genre | poetry |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | ix, 82 pp |
| ISBN | 0-87054-092-0 |
| OCLC | 7576918 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3570.I332 C6 |
Collected Poems: Nightmares and Visions is a collection of poems by Richard L. Tierney. It was released in 1981 by Arkham House in an edition of 1,030 copies. The book is illustrated by Jason Van Hollander. The poems had previously appeared in such magazines as The Arkham Collector, Whispers, Nyctalops, Macabre, The Diversifier, Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror, Ambrosia, Dark Messenger Reader, Myrrdin, Fantasy Crossroads and others.
Literary historian Don Herron has stated that the collection presents Tierney as "one of the most technically accomplished sonneteers of his generation, able to bring rhyming forms to bear on his own concerns, such as the especially nihilistic concluding poem "To the Hydrogen Bomb".[1]
- ^ Don Herron, "Richard L(ouis) Tierney" in S.T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemanowicz, eds, Supernatural Literature of the World, Westport & london: Greenwood Press (3 vols), 2005, pp. 1116-1117.