Sandalwood and Jade: Poems of the Exotic and the Strange is a poetry collection written and illustrated by Lin Carter. The book was released in paperback by The Sign of the Centaur in 1951. in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Background
Carter lists his inspirations as Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, Li Po, Tu Fu, Po Chu-I, Hafiz, Omar Khayyam, Chaures, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, and Don Blanding.
Summary
The collection consists of thirty poems, illustrated and with a foreword by the author.
Contents
- "Foreword"
- "Contents"
- "Couplet"
- "Pirate Gold"
- "The Star-Gazer"
- "The Night Kings"
- "Mars" (from Spaceteer #2, Mar./Apr. 1948)
- "The Arabian Nights"
- "Beyond the Gates of Dream"
- "The Wizard Isle" (from Challenge #1, Sum. 1950)
- "Of the Princess Liv-Shang"
- "The Gods Looked Down"
- "The Lotus-Eater" (from The Fanscient #12, Sum. 1950)
- "The Splendor in a Dream"
- "The Fantast" (from Gorgon v.2, no.3, Mar. 1949)
- "To Lord Dunsany"
- "Pan" (from Dream Quest #6, Jul. 1948)
- "Shard" (from Loki #1, Spr. 1948, and Palmetto and Pine Literary Supplement #1, 1947)
- "Walker on the Wind" (from The St. Petersburg Times, Apr. 1948)
- "Nightwind" (from Triton #4, 1949)
- "When Solomon Was King"
- "The Jungle-Song"
- "Babylon"
- "The Song of Laine the Dreamer" (from Scientififantasy, 1949)
- "Kooribaal" (from Scientifantasy #4, Sum. 1949)
- "To a Chinese Maiden"
- "The Book of Djinns"
- "Once in Fabled Grandeur"
- "Wanderlust"
- "In an Oriental Twilight"
- "Song of the Sorcerer" (from Challenge #2, Fall 1950)
- "The Golden City" (from Loki #1, Spr. 1948, and Palmetto and Pine Literary Supplement #2, 1948)
- "A Publishing History"
Recognition
"Walker on the Wind" was the winner of the '48 Elizabeth Buchtenkirk Award. "Nightwind" and "The Golden City" were winners of 1948 St. Petersburg Poetry League Awards.
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