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The opening framing highlights the purpose of poetry, then moves through sections including autumn poems, “The Gods As They Are, On Their Planets,” and Lovecraftian poetics. Later groupings explore graveyard visions and “Twilight of the Dictators,” followed by horror-focused poems, with recurring themes of fear, tenderness, sorrow, and literary craft. Publication notes and credits accompany the table of contents.","THINGS SAID ABOUT BRETT RUTHERFORD’S POETRY   \nRutherford is first and foremost a storyteller. He writes poetry for an audience, one that he feels would come back to poetry if only there were poetry to come back to.  \n—Radio Void  \nFantastic, rebellious poetry!—FactSheet 5  \nSome of the most powerful poetry I’ve ever read.—Frank Belknap Long Real poetry! Wonderful!—Ray Bradbury  \nThe Rutherford poetry is a delight. I am in complete agreement with his comments on the state of poetry in America today, and pleased that he has chosen to go against the current. His work is his most eloquent argument.—Robert Bloch, author of Psycho and Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper.  \nEqual parts Poe, Shelley, Lovecraft and Bradbury…composed with a firm sense of poetics and orchestrated with a respect for poetic tradition.…Though written in free verse, they scan with a rhythmic coherence, a dividend of precise word choicesand the embedding of alliterative phrases in the line.—Stefan Dziemianowicz, Crypt of Cthulhu  \nThis prolific poet who celebrates H.P. Lovecraft and Poe has reached an assurance of craft and in mood…an extraordinary poet, a neo-romantic perhaps, but also Ovid blended with Virgil.—Home Planet News  \nThe High Priest of Providence’s ghoulie underground…—TheNice Paper  \nShudders aplenty here, poetically nuanced…ranges across the supernatural spectrum with the fervor of Poe and the aloofness of Lovecraft.—Paul DiFilippo, Asimov’s SF Magazine  \nBe afraid. Be very afraid…Like Lovecraft, Rutherford integrates terrestrial terrors with a more sublime, or cosmic, dread.—Justin Wolff, The Providence Phoenix.  \n(About Poems from Providence): Like Wordsworth’s Prelude, this great book might avail us of endless hours of poring at leisure, enriching us, and, yes, ennobling us…. Rutherford can be appallingly tender and appallingly sorrowful…he can be funny, very. He can be inspired by joy. He can be profound. This is marvelous heady rich stuff…—Dusty Dog Reviews  \nA special validity and integrity…Rutherford writes about nature in ways in which comparatively few poets of today do—and clearly from first-hand experience and observation.—John Burnett Payne, Poets Fortnightly  \nAlso by BRETT RUTHERFORD  \nPOETRY  \nSongs of the I and Thou (1968)  \nCity Limits (1970)  \nThe Pumpkined Heart (1973)  \nAnniversarium: The Autumn Poems (1984, 1986, 1996, 2005) Whippoorwill Road: The Supernatural Poems (1985, 1998, 2005)  \nThunderpuss: In Memoriam (1987)  \nPrometheus on Fifth Avenue (1987)  \nAt Lovecraft’s Grave (1988)  \nIn Chill November (1990)  \nPoems from Providence (1991)  \nTwilight of the Dictators (with Pieter Vanderbeck) (1992) Knecht Ruprecht, or the Bad Boy’s Christmas (1992)  \nPLAYS  \nNight Gaunts: An Entertainment Based on the Life  \nAnd Work of H.P. Lovecraft (1993, 2005)  \nNOVELS  \nPiper (with John Robertson) (1985)  \nThe Lost Children (1988)  \nAS EDITOR/PUBLISHER May Eve: A Festival of Supernatural Poems (1975) Last Flowers: The Romance Poems of Edgar Allan Poe And Sarah Helen Whitman (1987, 2003) Matthew Gregory Lewis: Tales of Wonder (Annotated, 2010) Death and the Downs: The Poetry of Charles Hamilton Sorley  \n(Annotated, 2010)  \nTHE GODS AS THEY ARE, ON THEIR PLANETS  \nPoems by BRETT RUTHERFORD  \nFirst Edition 2005  \nSecond Printing 2007  \nThird Printing 2011  \nCopyright © 2005 by Brett Rutherford All Rights Reserved  \nISBN 0-922558-14  \nThe author places this work in the Public Domain on January 1, 2025.  \nSome of the poems in this book have appeared in the following magazines:  \nThe Rift, Ibid, Haunts, Poets Fortnightly, Weird Tales, Sensations Magazine, East Side Monthly, Just Add Water, and The Akashic Record of the Antarctic Astral Convention. Some of the poems are revisions or expansions of works that appeared in the books The Pumpkined Heart, Whippoorwill Road, Prometheus on Fifth Avenue, Songs of the Iand Thou, and In Chill November.  \nCover art: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867): Jupiter and Thetis, 1811 (Musée Granet, Aix-en-Prov","cbCaim3dcaffgZtF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaim3dcaffgZtF","pdf",1085053,5,1,210,"English","en",105,"# Prologue\n## Between the Pages\n## Entre Las Hojas\n## Why Poetry?\n# Liber Anniversarii: Autumn Poems\n## In Chill November\n## The Fence\n## To the Arc of the Sublime\n## October Storm 1998\n## Autumn Lyric\n## Autumn (Alexander Pushkin, 1833)\n## On Receiving A Gift of Books in Early October\n## Autumn Sundays in Madison Square\n## In Prague, A Tree of Many Colors\n## September in Gotham\n## Runaways\n# The Gods As They Are, On Their Planets\n## When Worlds Collide\n## Autumn on Mars\n## Pluto Demoted\n# Poetica Lovecraftiana\n## Maker of Monsters, Maker of Gods\n## Dreaming of Ur-R’lyeh\n## The Tree At Lovecraft’s Grave\n# Things Seen in Graveyards\n## After the Storm\n## Hart Island\n## Night Walker\n## An Exeter Vampire, 1799\n## Graveyards I’d Like To See","[{\"question\":\"What is the central style and purpose attributed to Brett Rutherford’s poetry in the book’s prefatory remarks?\",\"answer\":\"It is described primarily as storytelling poetry written for an audience that would return to poetry if more existed. 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