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Poetry: Alchemical Texts by Bruce Boston - Paul Ferguson - 03-20-2026
"Alchemical Texts is Bruce Boston's second speculative poetry collection. Conceived as an eight-poem cycle, the work portrays the life journey of a medieval alchemist through a sequence of interconnected speculative poems.Several poems in the collection originated as earlier publications in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Star*Line, and Velocities, incorporated as reprints to form the unified cycle. The conception draws on the historical alchemical tradition to shape its central narrative and figure, while reflecting the surreal tendencies evident in Boston's early poetry and blending them with speculative fiction elements. This approach aligns with Boston's broader speculative poetry style, which frequently applies diverse perspectives to genre tropes to create cohesive series."
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