The author of twenty-six books, Bruce Boston has published stories and poems in hundreds of magazines and anthologies, including Amazing Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction, Science Fiction Age, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's), and Nebula Awards (Harcourt). He has won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry a record six times, and the Asimov Readers' Award for poetry a record three times.  in 1999 the Science Fiction Poetry Association honored him with the first Grand Master Award in its twenty-two year history.  He lives in Ocala, Florida with his wife Marge Simon, and works as a freelance writer and book designer.  For more information, visit:  http://hometown.aol.com/bruboston. 

"...the power of precise language to contain and define the darkness in the human soul." -- Ellen Datlow, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 

"...a sinuous elegant line...unflinching sensibility...indisputably a mainstay of American poetry." -- Lucius Shepard, author of The Jaguar Hunter 

G.O. Clark has appeared in magazines such as Asimov's, Talebones, Space & Time, Dreams & Nightmares, and many more.  His poems have been anthologized in 2001:  A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, the Rhysling Award Anthology, and Star Trek -- The Poems.  His book and magazine reviews have found space in Star*Line and Small Press Review.  In 2001, he was the recipient of the Asimov's Readers' Award for best poem, and in the same year he came in 2nd in the Rhysling Award competition, short poem category, sponsored by the Science Fiction Poetry Association.  Also in the spring of 2001 he joined the staff of Dark Regions Magazine as an assistant fiction editor.  He resides in Davis, CA in a mobile home park with his cat and college bound son, and works in a university library to keep up with creditors.  He still retains his sense of wonder, fifty-six-years young. 

"G.O. Clark's first genre collection is both overdue and an impressive debut.  Fine economy of language, an ample dose of clever, yet more than that, these poems offer the reader a distinctive vision of both the everyday and extraordinary.  Open A Box Full of Alien Skies and discover dinosaur logic, Medusa on the 'A' Train, dancing robots, Stephen Hawking's cat, the Seven Wonders of the New World, and much more." 
-- Bruce Boston, author of Masque of Dreams

"Highly recommended."
  -- Frederick A. Raborg of Amelia

"Jewels that float above earth, these  poems connect the dreamer to the
stars."
     --Rochelle Lynn Holt

"An instant classic as far as genre work goes, and an excellent textbook case of how real experimental poetry should be written. Don't pass it up."
     --Richard Levesque

"Writhing In Darkness is an excellent retrospective that provides an even-handed overview of Michael Arnzen's poetry..."
     --Wayne Edwards

"The literate yet never overbearing sophistication of both form and language.  The sometimes nasty sense of humor. It's all in there, in the poems. Waiting to jump out and dazzle and enrich you."
     --Jim Lee