Casey at the Booth
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Unabridged SF poem/parody
2008
A Filk of the Republic Sung in the Year 2088.
A political parody based on Ernest L Thayer's Casey at the Bat. First appeared in Inconsequential Art #4. Text online here. Cover art by Constantine Markopoulos.
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5 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Narrative Poem
1816
In which our hero, the most Romantic of all the Romantic poets, takes on the end of the world.
Written in Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1816, when Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and John Polidori spent their evenings telling each other ghost stories. The resulting tales included Shelley's Frankenstein, Polidori's creation of the vampire/vampyre genre (based on a novel fragment of Byron's), and this gloomy, speculative verse.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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6 minutes, 58 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1816
Two poems by one of the founders of the Romantic Movement.
Coleridge claimed that "Kubla Khan," one of his most famous works, came to him in an opium-inspired dream. Coleridge's symbolic pleasure-dome of Xanadu in this poem is referenced and even built in Orson Well's classic film, Citizen Kane. The full title of the poem is "Kubla Khan Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment."
"The Pains of Sleep" by contrast is a more conversational and emotional piece, dealing with nightmares instead of utopian fantasies, but it is very likely that this poem, too, was inspired by Coleridge's continued opium use.
Though both poems were first published at the same time in 1816, Coleridge wrote "Kubla Khan" a good 6 years before 1803's "The Pains of Sleep," revealing very different mental reactions to his continued drug use. 1816 was also the year when Coleridge finally sought help for his addiction.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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6 minutes
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1846
Two poems based on the Arthurian legend, written by the founder of trancendentalism. Read by Alex Wilson.
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8 minutes, 29 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1845
The archetype of dark poetry by the master of macabre. Read by Alex Wilson.
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious
volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered,
"tapping at my chamber door--
Only this, and nothing more..."
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33 minutes, 59 seconds
Unabridged Speculative Poetry
1990
An 18-poem audio chapbook by the Grand Master of Science Fiction Poetry. Read by the author and set to music by Jack Poley. Features the 1985 Rhysling Award Winner "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets" and Rhysling Award Nominees "The FTL Addict Fixes" (1984), and "The Evolution of the Death Murals" (1986).
The poems in this collection first appeared in Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Aboriginal SF, Berkely Poets Cooperative, Lost Roads, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, StarLine, Velocities, and Weird Tales. Full list...
The Alchemist Is Born in a Sudden Changing of SeasonsSF Poetry (sometimes called "Speculative Poetry," sometimes called "Science Fiction Poetry") explores similiar themes and poses similiar "What if?" questions usually associated with science fiction and fantasy prose.
The Alchemist in Transit
The Alchemist Discovers a Universal Solvent
A Thousand Faces
The Alchemist Among Us
And Soon a Wolf For Every Door
Mean Time 2000
Beyond Procreation
The Beserker Enters a Plea
The Evolution of the Death Murals
The Eyes of the Pilot
The Star Drifter Grounded
The FTL Addict Fixes
For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets
From the Double Ruins of Helix
Against the Ebon Rush of Night
The Knowledge at Londrai
Luminaries
Wired Magazine has commended Boston for having "uncommon grace and clarity of vision. Boston writes with the voice of a poet, the heart of a bodhisattva, and the unblinking eye of an investigative reporter."
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