Through them she discovers the world of faerie and the many folk who live in the city despite the great amount of iron that could do them harm. She creates a new identity with herself and meets new friends, other teenagers living in the NY subway system. When Val catches her boyfriend and her kissing on the couch, she runs away from home and lands in New York City. Though set in the same world, Valiant follows a new set of characters. Crane's poetry is terse, straightforward, and blunt rather than lyrical, and often delves into dark unpleasant realms, but it's poetry that lingers, squatting in peripheral of the mind. Whereas, McDonald's choice to upper and lowercase the text (into more proper grammatical format) means 'God' is now capitalized as religion dictates it should be, which certainly changes the effect. In Crane's originals the word 'GOD' would have been all caps like all the rest of the text, and therefore did not afford any special importance to the word.

McDonald notes that in its original editions Crane's poetry was presented in all capital letters, whereas McDonald choose to remove this in this collection. It's interesting that in the forward the editor Gerald D. They allegorically present lonely wanderers trudging forward to face strange encounters in an hostile world, and yet, there is a light too, for though god as presented in these poems is often uncaring or cruel, also 'the voice of God whispers in the head / so softly / that the soul pauses.' Many of Crane's poems explore similar themes. This poem can be found in this collection.

The untitled poem goes:Īnd because it is my heart.'It's a brutal and evocative poem, grim and incredibly appropriate for the beginning of a collection of Stephen King horror stories. Stephen Crane wrote one of my all-time favorite poems, which I discovered because Stephen King quoted it in. The Dark and Hollow Places, by Carrie Ryan The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell HammettĨ. Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to be Haunted, by Eric Nuzumħ. Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost between the Pages, by Michael PopekĦ. Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, by Holly Blackĥ. Habibi (graphic novel), by Craig ThompsonĤ. Poems of Stephen Crane, by Stephen Crane, selected by Gerald D.

Forgotten bookmarks by michael popek