Song lyrics by author Rachel Lawson Includes The Sea Of Time I am lost in the sea of time, I am merely a memory of seas gone by, I am lost in time's wake, Long forgotten is my world and time, I am just a shadow of a shell, my old home, Cry not for my loss, I am beauty in death's ardent clutch, Death has no worry for the dead, My world is dead, and my time is too, I with the fishes of my seas swam in my era now I am just a neat relic of past life on ancient Earth, My bones have melted away and become part of my stone shadow, a fossil

These poems have been written over the course of several years, and therefore reflect a myriad of sensibilities. Some of the poems reflect emotions as they pertain to feeling alienated, misunderstood, or different, gothic subculture, desire, morbid curiosity, and a love of all things dark, embracing our darkest fears, and confronting our inner demons.

Combining lush Gothic lyricism with postmodern experimentation, Oliver Sheppard's second collection of verse, Thirteen Nocturnes, presents a nightmare vision of a world in the grip of apocalypse and shadow-a world where "a nighttime of years never-ending" becomes "a darkness severe and unbending," and where life is relentlessly "gathered up against the towering shadow of decay." Taking cues from the dark Romanticism of Poe, the decadent Symbolism of Baudelaire, and the apocalyptic tradition of William Blake-as well as the existential doominess of 20th century cosmic horror-Oliver Sheppard's Thirteen Nocturnes presents a verse vision of collapse, announcing a cold poetics of disintegration in the new dark age of the Anthropocene. "Reading Sheppard's poetry is a little like listening to a conversation between Nietzsche and William Blake during a showing of Peckinpah's Cross of Iron. Using a wide range of forms and cultural references, Sheppard illustrates the human condition in ways that take as much account of its absence as its presence... Given the chance, Sheppard will lead you down dark and unfamiliar paths, to moments of weird beauty." -from the foreword by John Foster

Song lyrics and poems based on Rachel's books and poems Tears of a Clown I am Pierrot, don't call me a clown, I bear the rose of a broken heart, I lost my love to my rival, So I cry, No, I do not lie, Or will I lay down my rose, my heart. My tears are my heart's lost blood, I will die of grief before I lay down my rose, My heart will die. I am Pierrot, don't call me a clown, I bear the rose of a broken heart, I lost my love to my rival, So I cry, No, I do not lie, Or will I lay down my rose, my heart. My tears are my heart's lost blood, I will die of grief before I lay down my rose, My heart will die.

Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.

Poetry. Winner of the 2019 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. "The poems in MIDWEST GOTHIC make the daily deliciously strange--'the daily / which isn't still at all but a whirring / gone deep.' They make us work our way inside them, but once I entered this book, I didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay in 'the copper-tipped town;' I wanted to stay with the delphinium, 'a choir of indigo, ' and 'cornfields made surreal / in the dark.' These difficult times have tested my faith in many things, including language, and MIDWEST GOTHIC arrived just in time to remind me what poems can do."--Maggie Smith

The 3nd part of the Imperial Magicians series, with more of the stories with the emperor of The Magicians Universe. Fred the emperor of the universe in real life not an emperor dealing with real things as a father, a man torn between lives old and new lives and life with his younger self sharing a pregnant wife with his younger self Prince Blake as a rival with his wife and his relationships with his two sons one who hates him Lance and Val who respects him but is his own father not that Val knows it. A problem with time travel, you can be your own grandfather and have yourself as a rival. This book has romantic and dark gothic horror-themed stories and song lyrics. Has a mixture of old and new reworked pieces collected together.