More Joshi-tastica from Necronomicon Press. Alongside the ‘best of the essays’ volume recently noted here, he’s also assembled a new $20 selection of the best of Lovecraft’s poetry. To a Dreamer: Best Poems of H. P. Lovecraft appears to be newly available now in simultaneous hardback and paperback….

This volume provides a cross-section of the very best of Lovecraft’s poetry. While his weird poems take pride of place, other bodies of work are not neglected. In particular, Lovecraft was skilled at satirical poetry, inspired by the pungent work of John Dryden and Alexander Pope. He condemned contemporary poetry in ‘Amissa Minerva’ and also wrote an exquisite parody of T. S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’, titled ‘Waste Paper.’ He even satirized himself in ‘The Dead Bookworm’ and other verses.

Quite substantial at 228 pages, but less of a wrist-strainer than the latest 600+ oversize pages of the latest edition of The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft. Which, incidentally, is also big as well as heavy and gets annoyingly floppy with use — a scholar will likely want to go for the hardcover before its gets really expensive, if you can afford it.