In Mayan Splendor

In Mayan Splendor

Infobox Book
name = In Mayan Splendor
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image_caption = Jacket illustration by Stephen E. Fabian for "In Mayan Splendor"
author = Frank Belknap Long
illustrator = Stephen E. Fabian
cover_artist = Stephen E. Fabian
country = United States
language = English
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subject =
genre = poetry
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1977
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = x, 66 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87054-080-7
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"In Mayan Splendor" is a collection of poems by Frank Belknap Long. It was released in 1977 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,947 copies. The book is illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian and contains the complete contents of Long's earlier verse collections, "A Man from Genoa" (1926) and "The Goblin Tower" (1935).

Contents

"In Mayan Splendor" contains the following poems:

# "In Mayan Splendor"
# "A Knight of La Mancha"
# "Sonnet"
# "A Man from Genoa"
# "Advice"
# "Pirate-Men"
# "On Icy Kinarth"
# "The Magi"
# "On Reading Arthur Machen"
# "Stallions of the Moon"
# "In Hospital"
# "Ballad of St. Anthony"
# "The White People"
# "An Old Tale Retold"
# "Prediction"
# "The Rebel"
# "Two Stanzas for Master François Villon"
# "The Goblin Tower"
# "West Indies"
# "The Hashish-Eater"
# "When We Have Seen"
# "The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville"
# "Manhattan Skyline & W.W."
# "The Horror on Dagoth Wold"
# "In the Garden of Eros"
# "The Prophet"
# "Night-Trees"
# "Florence"
# "When Chaugnar Wakes"
# "In Antique Mood"
# "The Abominable Snow Men"
# "A Sonnet for Seamen"
# "Ballad of Mary Magdalene"
# "Great Ashtoreth"
# "Subway"
# "An Old Wife Speaketh It"
# "A Time Will Come"
# "The Inland Sea"
# "Exotic Quest"
# "H.P. Lovecraft"

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=118-119| date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=52| date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=142-143 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=124 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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