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Since 1978, the Science Fiction Poetry Association has selected the best long and short poems in science fiction, fantasy, and horror for its annual Rhysling Awards, named in honor of the blind poet of the spaceways from Robert Heinlein's "The Green Hills of Earth."

Often considered the equivalent for poetry of the Nebula Awards for fiction, the winning poems appear each year in the Nebula Awards anthologies.

Now for the first time the Rhysling Winners have been gathered under one cover. This collection presents more than twenty-five years of the best poetry in the field of speculative literature.

Including poems by:

Michael Bishop • Bruce Boston • Suzette Haden Elgin • John M. Ford • Robert Frazier • Joe Haldeman • Geoffrey A. Landis • Ursula K. Le Guin • David Lunde • Lawrence Schimel • Lucius Shepard • Jeff VanderMeer • Laurel Winter • William John Watkins • Gene Wolfe • Jane Yolen • and many more!

Also includes an Introduction by Jane Yolen and a reader's guide to the Rhysling Award-winning poems..
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The first Rhysling Anthology, published in 1978, consisted of 14 poems on 13 Xeroxed pages. The publication of this striking 79-poem anthology is thus a testament to the skyrocketing popularity of science fiction and fantasy poetry over the past three decades. And the imaginativeness and vitality of these poems, in craft and concept, certainly suggests that the field of fantastic poetry is reaching new heights. Herein you'll find the true descendants of Gilgamesh and Beowulf, Paradise Lost and Eureka, The Star-Treader and Aniara..
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Mythic, speculative, macabre, science fictional, weird, fantastic, dystopian, dark, cosmic, magical, surreal, astrological, elfin, supernatural, futurist, spiritual, horrific, mystical, astronomic, grotesque, ethereal, folkloric, utopian, scientific, terrifying, starry, spectral-regardless of the differences in their emphases, the 96 poems published in this, the 31st-annual RHYSLING ANTHOLOGY, have two things in common: in privileging the imagination, they explore realms and ideas that hover outside the confines of our largely rational and empiric daily realities; and of all such poems published in 2007, the explorations undertaken herein are the most innovative and nuanced-and the most masterfully articulated..
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The Rhysling Awards are the pinnacle of Speculative/Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror poetry. . . . The Rhyslings have now been awarded for the best poetry of the previous twenty-nine years (1978-2005)-and this longevity is certainly a key part of its significance. It is, however, the excellence of the winners that has so elevated the Rhyslings . . .- from the Preface by Drew Morse.
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