Clock Star Rose Spine
by Fran Wilde
“Powerful, elegant, precise... A gorgeous collection.”
Award-winning fantasy author Fran Wilde returns to her roots in Clock Star Rose Spine, which brings together poems previously published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and more with a selection of work never before published. In this collection illuminated with whimsical fountain pen illustrations, Wilde explores family histories, feminism, visual art, disability, mythology, and of course the sea with tangible yearning and keen insight.
POE005010 POETRY / American / General
Print: $18.00, EPUB $9.99
Print ISBN: 978-1-941360-57-6
Digital ISBN: 978-1-941360-58-3
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
Publicity Contact: Feliza Casano, publicity@lanternfishpress.com
Photo Credit: Brian Derballa
About the Author
Fran Wilde is the double-Nebula award winning author of seven novels for children and adults, as well as numerous short stories, reviews, and essays that cross literary and genre boundaries. Trained as an artist, jeweler, programmer, and poet, Fran received her MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and an MA in interaction design from University of Baltimore. She is the genre fiction concentration director at Western Colorado University. This is her first collection of poetry and illustration.
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Comp Titles
So Far So Good by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sea Journal: Seafarer's Sketchbooks by Huw Lewis-Jones
Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle
A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora by Jenna Le
Talking Points for Booksellers & Librarians
First collection of poetry by two-time Nebula Award-winning fantasy author Fran Wilde
Contains poems previously appearing in Uncanny, Fireside, and other publications, including two Rhysling Award finalists
Full-color interiors showcasing fountain pen illustrations by the author in a gorgeous chapbook edition
Praise for Clock Star Rose Spine
“Fran Wilde is one of my favorite contemporary writers. These poems are powerful, elegant, precise maps and directions and destinations that make me long to travel again—at least to the places inside Fran’s imagination, from Hades to Los Angeles. A gorgeous collection.”
—Theodora Goss, award-winning author of The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
“Fran Wilde's poetry makes my heart soar, and then ache, and then soar again. The lyricism of her prose has been quietly upping the stakes for language in speculative fiction for years now, and we're so fortunate to get such a potent, concentrated dose of it here.”
—Sam J. Miller, author of The Blade Between
“Wilde charts worlds of light and liquid that slide through space-time, myth and imagination awash with the mundane.”
—Laura Gray Street, Author of Pigment and Fume, coeditor of The Ecopoetry Anthology
“These poems turn on truly colorful ideas—what if you married the sea and had known each other since elementary school—Kudos Fran Wilde. It’s a book to go back to.”
—Samuel R. Delany