Clock Star Rose Spine
Clock Star Rose Spine
by Fran Wilde
“Powerful, elegant, precise ... A gorgeous collection.”
—Theodora Goss, award-winning author of
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
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.
Praise for Clock Star Rose Spine
“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
“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
“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
