Quanta: Award Winning Poems
A poetry collection.
Limited to a press run of 200 copies, 26 copies have been signed and lettered by the author, 125 have been numbered and signed by the author.
Quanta: Award Winning Poems by Bruce Boston, has twelve award winning poems with
comments on each poem, an essay on speculative poetry by the author, and an
introduction by Andrew Joron. Includes a detailed
bibliography of all Boston's books and broadsides through 2001. Michael Arnzen of Strange Horizons writes: "I cannot think of
another writer in the genre who could fill a book of short
pieces with award-winners, with the exception, perhaps, of Harlan
Ellison".
Bruce Boston
Bruce Boston (born 1943) is an American speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California.
Bruce Boston has won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry a record seven times: for Best Long Poem in 1989 and 1999, and for Best Short Poem in 1985, 1988, 1994, 1996, and 2001, and the Asimov's Readers' Award for poetry a record six times: 1990, 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2008. He has also received a Pushcart Prize for fiction, 1976, the Bram Stoker Award for his poetry collections Pitchblende, 2003, Shades Fantastic, 2006, and The Nightmare Collection, 2008, and the first Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, 1999. His collaborative poem with Robert Frazier, "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest," received first place in the 2006 Locus Online Poetry Poll for Best All-Time Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem.