How Sweet the Dream
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | How Sweet the Dream |
| Publisher: | Lynette Combs |
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| Date(s): | 1990 |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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How Sweet the Dream is a 33-page het anthology of Beauty and the Beast poetry by Lynette Combs.
It is digest-sized and contains the author's silhouette art.
Contents
- Dream Seeker (1)
- The Lonely Wanderer (2)
- The Darkening (3)
- Love's Prayer (4)
- A Stranger in Passing (5)
- Flower Thief (6)
- On the Outside, Looking In (7)
- I Saw Her Walking (8)
- In My Eyes (9)
- A Glimpse of Loving Strangers (10)
- Did I Hear You? (11)
- My Love (12)
- Growing Pains (13)
- The Fatal Flaw (14)
- No Riches But These (15)
- Unexpected Guests (16)
- If I Love Him (17)
- The Gift (18)
- Listen (19)
- The Way I Miss You (20)
- Reaching Out (21)
- Restless, at the Glass (22)
- The Haunting (23)
- Darkling Dreams (24)
- I'll Remember You (25)
- Departure (26)
- Reflections (27)
- My Friend (28)
- Reflections on an Empty Room (29)
- Dear Catherine (30)
- Dreams and Echoes (31)
- Grieving Dreams (32)
- My Beloved (33)
Reactions and Reviews
Marvelous, well-wrought, thoughtful poetry-romantic and profound rather than sensual or sentimental. Some poems deal with Vincent's loneliness after Catherine's death but the zine as a whole is life- and love-affirming. The poems are metered and rhymed, showing both perception and excellent poetic craft. Some are bound to become your favorites. Example (from “On the Outside, Looking In”): The anguish fades./ Nostalgia reigns, as though/love was a place I meant to see/a long, long time ago. Splendid stuff. Winner, Crystalline Rose Award, 1991.[1]