First let me give a shout out and hello to the 45th followers of this blog. Now on to the review.
SURREALITIES by Bruce Boston ( Colusa, CA; 2011, Dark Regions; ISBN 978-1-937120 ) pb, $9.95 . This latest Boston collection is devoted to surreal poems by Boston, both reprints and new poems original to this collection. I generall prefer surreal poems to be short ( less than ten lines ) and clearly mainstream but incorperating genre sf/f/h/slipstream elements. The Boston poems are longer and are usually within the sf/f/h genres. Boston being Boston I find that his poems generally work for me despite my quibbles. This is a must buy collection.
BTW myt favorite lines in the collection are these from the poem ' Dali's Ego On Karloff's Frankenstein '.
'I would give him color
and drench him in absolute
until his countenance...'
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