{"product_id":"9781614982012","title":"Aesthetics Ho! Essays on Art, Literature, and Theatre","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than fifty years, Donald Sidney-Fryer has been exhibiting his profound and wide-ranging sensitivity to all forms of art—music, painting, sculpture, ballet, and most of all, poetry. In this new collection of previously uncollected and unpublished essays, Sidney-Fryer displays the wealth of knowledge and the keen critical judgment he has developed in a lifetime of immersion in the fine arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book opens with a fascinating diary-essay recounting a trip Sidney-Fryer took to El Salvador in 2016, in the company of master painter Jesse Allen, whose murals are described vividly and evocatively. Sidney-Fryer subsequently treats a wealth of other subjects, ranging from the poetic methodology of his own classic work, \u003cem\u003eSongs and Sonnets Atlantean\u003c\/em\u003e (1971), the prose and poetry of H. P. Lovecraft, the films of the 1930s and 1940s, and much else besides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second half of \u003cem\u003eAesthetics, Ho!\u003c\/em\u003e is titled “Ends and Odds: A Poetic Miscellany,” an assemblage of nearly 60 poems and prose-poems that Sidney-Fryer has written in recent years. Here we find tributes to the work of Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and the imagination-stirring travel accounts of Marco Polo, an evocation of the King Arthur legend, and an amusing parody of Clark Ashton Smith (“The Nonsense Eater: By Quark Ashcan Smiff”), the author whom Sidney-Fryer has spent a lifetime in studying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll told, this volume demonstrates Donald Sidney-Fryer’s continuing dynamism as an artist and critic in his eighth decade of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hippocampus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054619279600,"sku":"9781614982012","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614982012_p0.jpg?v=1763849466","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614982012","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}