How to Flirt in Faerieland & Other Wild Rhymes

By C.S.E. Cooney

2012

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4.67

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2H41M

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Do you know how to flirt in Faerie land? C.S.E. Cooney does. In this collection of seventeen poems - four never before published! - you'll find goblins, crones, robber brides, coyotes, and even a sea king. Cooney draws from folklore and myth to create something entirely her own, something glimpsed only in Faerie. From the raucous and bawdy to the sorrowful dirge, these poems will work upon you like a spell. But don't take the publisher's word for it! Hearken to the words of JANE YOLEN, winner of the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction/Fantasy Poetry Association: "Cooney is drunk on words, and we readers drink a toast to her as well." Or perhaps you prefer to heed SHARON SHINN, author of THE SHAPE-CHANGER'S WIFE: "C.S.E. Cooney piles up words and rhymes and glittering images like so much sea glass on the shore. Sublime, sublime-o." Or maybe DELIA SHERMAN, author of THE FREEDOM MAZE: "This is a poetry collection like no other I've ever read." If those folk can't convince you, then you'll just have to read the book yourselves.

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Author

C.S.E. Cooney

Author · 18 books

C.S.E. Cooney lives and writes in Queens, whose borders are water. She is an audiobook narrator, the singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, and author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium 2015). Her work includes the novella Desdemona and the Deep (Tor.com 2019), three albums: Alecto! Alecto!, The Headless Bride, and Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir, and a poetry collection: How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes. The latter features her 2011 Rhysling Award-winning “The Sea King’s Second Bride.” Her short fiction can be found in Ellen Datlow’s Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the Sword and Sonnet anthology, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K Jones, E. Catherine Tobler, Mike Allen’s Clockwork Phoenix 3 and 5, Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018), Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 12, Lightspeed Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, Apex, Uncanny Magazine, Black Gate, Papaveria Press, GigaNotoSaurus, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, and elsewhere.