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I need to read this several more times to arrive a more definite assessment. The works that are more formally structured and based on Mythos tales work well enough, but I am hard pressed to decide how much of it is borrowed energy from the original tales. For my money, some of the free verse that is less closely tied to a specific story by HPL, CAS, Block etc are the most interesting.
My favorite poem is In the Night Garden.
An amazing ouvre, as notable for its Lovecraftian obsession as its vision. Highlights include a sonnet cycle illumining the progress of Lavinia Whatley (Lovecraft's only genuine female character), another cycle entitled "In the Yaddith Time" that combines the sonnet form perfectly with science fiction tropes, and the wholly original gems "Her Muse Is A Raven", "There Is A Darkness" and "Sanguine Taggers".
" This is the very first 5 star review that I've ever given.I've never been much of a poetry person.Ann K. Schwader changed all of that. Several years ago I got hold of a copy of her lovecraftian poetry cycle "In the Yaddith Time". I was floored by the bizzare imagery and deliciously creepy atmosphere and mood. I think that mood and atmosphere are everything when it comes to poetry, and Ms./Mrs. Schwader's poetry simply oozed these charactersitcs. She paints images with words that are unbelievab...
