''Sandalwood and Jade: Poems of the Exotic and the Strange'' is a poetry collection written and illustrated by
Lin Carter
Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. Lov ...
. The book was released in paperback by The Sign of the Centaur in 1951.
in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Background
Carter lists his inspirations as
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American writer who wrote pulp magazine, pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sor ...
,
Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories and poetry, and an artist. He achieved early recognition in California (largely through the enthusiasm ...
,
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'' was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and politic ...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame durin ...
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John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tub ...
,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( ; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth ...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwright ...
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Li Po
Li Bai (, 701–762), also pronounced Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (), was a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the greatest and most important poets of the Tang dynasty and in Chinese history as a whole. He and his friend Du Fu (712–770) were t ...
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Tu Fu
Du Fu (; 712–770) was a Chinese poet and politician during the Tang dynasty. Together with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai, Du is often considered one of the greatest Chinese poets of his time. His greatest ambition was to serve hi ...
,
Po Chu-I,
Hafiz
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* Hafiz (Quran), a term used by Muslims for people who have completely memorized the Qur'an
** ''Al-Ḥafīẓ'', one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "the Ever-Preserving/Guardian/All-Watching/ Protector"
Pe ...
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Omar Khayyam
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) (Persian language, Persian: غیاث الدین ابوالفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشابورﻯ), commonly known as Omar ...
, Chaures,
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics ...
,
Edgar Allan Poe
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, and
Don Blanding
Donald Benson Blanding (November 7, 1894–June 9, 1957) was an American poet, sometimes described as the "poet laureate of Hawaii." He was also a journalist, cartoonist, author and speaker.
Early life
Blanding was born in Kingfisher, Oklahom ...
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[Carter, Lin. ''Sandalwood and Jade'', 1951, p. 2.]
Summary
The collection consists of thirty poems, illustrated and with a foreword by the author.
Contents
* "Foreword"
* "Contents"
* "Couplet"
* "Pirate Gold"
* "The Star-Gazer"
* "The Night Kings"
* "Mars" (from ''Spaceteer'' #2, Mar./Apr. 1948)
* "The Arabian Nights"
* "Beyond the Gates of Dream"
* "The Wizard Isle" (from ''Challenge'' #1, Sum. 1950)
* "Of the Princess Liv-Shang"
* "The Gods Looked Down"
* "The Lotus-Eater" (from ''The Fanscient'' #12, Sum. 1950)
* "The Splendor in a Dream"
* "The Fantast" (from ''Gorgon'' v.2, no.3, Mar. 1949)
* "To Lord Dunsany"
* "Pan" (from ''Dream Quest'' #6, Jul. 1948)
* "Shard" (from ''Loki'' #1, Spr. 1948, and ''Palmetto and Pine'' Literary Supplement #1, 1947)
* "Walker on the Wind" (from ''The St. Petersburg Times'', Apr. 1948)
* "Nightwind" (from ''Triton'' #4, 1949)
* "When Solomon Was King"
* "The Jungle-Song"
* "Babylon"
* "The Song of Laine the Dreamer" (from ''Scientififantasy'', 1949)
* "Kooribaal" (from ''Scientifantasy'' #4, Sum. 1949)
* "To a Chinese Maiden"
* "The Book of Djinns"
* "Once in Fabled Grandeur"
* "Wanderlust"
* "In an Oriental Twilight"
* "Song of the Sorcerer" (from ''Challenge'' #2, Fall 1950)
* "The Golden City" (from ''Loki'' #1, Spr. 1948, and ''Palmetto and Pine'' Literary Supplement #2, 1948)
* "A Publishing History"
Recognition
"Walker on the Wind" was the winner of the '48 Elizabeth Buchtenkirk Award. "Nightwind" and "The Golden City" were winners of 1948 St. Petersburg Poetry League Awards.
[Carter, Lin. ''Sandalwood and Jade'', 1951, p. 24.]
Notes
External link
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Sandalwood and Jade: Poems of the Exotic and the Strange' (St Petersburg, FL:Sign of the Centaur Press, 1951)
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