PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English and member of the graduate faculty in English and graduate faculty member at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Co-editor of Science Fiction from China: Eight Stories, Essentials of the Theory Fiction, and special issues of Women's Studies and Studies in the Humanities, he is currently editing Critical Essasys on Gary Snyder and writing The Reader's Guide to Joanna Russ and Understanding Gary Snyder.VERNON HYLES is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University. His previous works include George Alex Effinger, Freaks, The Grotesque as a Metaphor, and many articles and essays in journals.

• Foreword by Patrick D. Murphy The Poetry of the Fantastic by Vernon Hyles Poetry and the Pre-Fantastic by Peter Malekin Lamia as Muse by Martha Nochimson Fantasy Figures in Poe's Poems by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV "The Hidden World Below": Victorian Women Fantasy Poets by Charolette Spivack C.S. Lewis's "Dymer": Once More with Hesitation by Patrick D. Murphy Fantastic Elements in Holocaust Poetry: Abba Kovner's "Ahoti Ktanah" by Carl Schaffer Entry to the Unaccounted For: Mark Strand's Fantastic Autism Lance Olsen The Black Art: New Critical Transformations and Anne Sexton's "Rapunzel" by Karen Michalson Comic Fantasy in Two Post-Modern Verse Novels: Slinger and "Ko" by Nancy Lang The Left Hand of Fabulation: The Poetry of Ursula K. LeGuin by Patrick D. Murphy Some Thoughts on Stopping the World by Ralph Yarrow Dialogues by Starlight: Three Approaches to Writing SF Poetry, with a Checklist of Related Works Michael R. Collings Afterword Bibliography Index

PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English and member of the graduate faculty in English and graduate faculty member at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Co-editor of Science Fiction from China: Eight Stories, Essentials of the Theory Fiction, and special issues of Women's Studies and Studies in the Humanities, he is currently editing Critical Essasys on Gary Snyder and writing The Reader's Guide to Joanna Russ and Understanding Gary Snyder.VERNON HYLES is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University. His previous works include George Alex Effinger, Freaks, The Grotesque as a Metaphor, and many articles and essays in journals.

• Foreword by Patrick D. Murphy The Poetry of the Fantastic by Vernon Hyles Poetry and the Pre-Fantastic by Peter Malekin Lamia as Muse by Martha Nochimson Fantasy Figures in Poe's Poems by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV "The Hidden World Below": Victorian Women Fantasy Poets by Charolette Spivack C.S. Lewis's "Dymer": Once More with Hesitation by Patrick D. Murphy Fantastic Elements in Holocaust Poetry: Abba Kovner's "Ahoti Ktanah" by Carl Schaffer Entry to the Unaccounted For: Mark Strand's Fantastic Autism Lance Olsen The Black Art: New Critical Transformations and Anne Sexton's "Rapunzel" by Karen Michalson Comic Fantasy in Two Post-Modern Verse Novels: Slinger and "Ko" by Nancy Lang The Left Hand of Fabulation: The Poetry of Ursula K. LeGuin by Patrick D. Murphy Some Thoughts on Stopping the World by Ralph Yarrow Dialogues by Starlight: Three Approaches to Writing SF Poetry, with a Checklist of Related Works Michael R. Collings Afterword Bibliography Index

PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English and member of the graduate faculty in English and graduate faculty member at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Co-editor of Science Fiction from China: Eight Stories, Essentials of the Theory Fiction, and special issues of Women's Studies and Studies in the Humanities, he is currently editing Critical Essasys on Gary Snyder and writing The Reader's Guide to Joanna Russ and Understanding Gary Snyder.VERNON HYLES is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University. His previous works include George Alex Effinger, Freaks, The Grotesque as a Metaphor, and many articles and essays in journals.

• Foreword by Patrick D. Murphy The Poetry of the Fantastic by Vernon Hyles Poetry and the Pre-Fantastic by Peter Malekin Lamia as Muse by Martha Nochimson Fantasy Figures in Poe's Poems by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV "The Hidden World Below": Victorian Women Fantasy Poets by Charolette Spivack C.S. Lewis's "Dymer": Once More with Hesitation by Patrick D. Murphy Fantastic Elements in Holocaust Poetry: Abba Kovner's "Ahoti Ktanah" by Carl Schaffer Entry to the Unaccounted For: Mark Strand's Fantastic Autism Lance Olsen The Black Art: New Critical Transformations and Anne Sexton's "Rapunzel" by Karen Michalson Comic Fantasy in Two Post-Modern Verse Novels: Slinger and "Ko" by Nancy Lang The Left Hand of Fabulation: The Poetry of Ursula K. LeGuin by Patrick D. Murphy Some Thoughts on Stopping the World by Ralph Yarrow Dialogues by Starlight: Three Approaches to Writing SF Poetry, with a Checklist of Related Works Michael R. Collings Afterword Bibliography Index