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''In Mayan Splendor'' is a collection of poems by
Frank Belknap Long Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known ...
. It was released in 1977 by
Arkham House Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had ...
in an edition of 2,947 copies. The book is illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian and contains the complete contents of Long's earlier verse collections, ''A Man from Genoa'' (1926) and ''The Goblin Tower'' (1935) plus additional poems.


Contents

''In Mayan Splendor'' contains the following poems: # "In Mayan Splendor" # "A Knight of La Mancha" # "Sonnet" # "A Man from Genoa" # "Advice" # "Pirate-Men" # "On Icy Kinarth" # "The Magi" # "On Reading Arthur Machen" # "Stallions of the Moon" # "In Hospital" # "Ballad of St. Anthony" # "The White People" # "An Old Tale Retold" # "Prediction" # "The Rebel" # "Two Stanzas for Master François Villon" # "The Goblin Tower" # "West Indies" # "The Hashish-Eater" # "When We Have Seen" # "The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville" # "Manhattan Skyline & W.W." # "The Horror on Dagoth Wold" # "In the Garden of Eros" # "The Prophet" # "Night-Trees" # "Florence" # "When Chaugnar Wakes" # "In Antique Mood" # "The Abominable Snow Men" # "A Sonnet for Seamen" # "Ballad of Mary Magdalene" # "Great Ashtoreth" # "Subway" # "An Old Wife Speaketh It" # "A Time Will Come" # "The Inland Sea" # "Exotic Quest" # "H.P. Lovecraft"


References

* * * *{{cite book , last=Nielsen , first=Leon , title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide , location=Jefferson, NC and London , publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., pages=124 , year=2004 , isbn=0-7864-1785-4 1977 poetry books American poetry collections