The Book Of Jade
David Park Barnitz
Details
1998 Book UK Durtro Press London
300 Numbered copies
180 pages
Reissue (expanded)
Pictorial boards
Without dust wrapper
Chapters
  • Introduction by Mark Valentine ...7
  • Prelude...21
PART ONE
  • Ashtoreth...29
  • Parfait Amour...30
  • Opium...32
  • Sombre Sonnet...33
  • Langour...34
  • Ennui...35
  • Litany...36
  • Harvard...39
  • Pride...40
  • Song Of Golden Youth...41
  • Mais Moi Je Vis La Vie En Rouge...43
  • Louanges D'Elle...45
  • Hélas...46
  • Sonnet...47
  • Sonnet...49
  • Rondeau...50
  • Autumn Song...51
  • Ballad...52
  • Changelessness...54
  • Madonna...55
  • Poppy Song...56
  • Consolation...59
  • Liebes-Tod...60
  • Evening Song...62
  • Song Of The Stars In Praise Of Her...64
  • Aubade...66
  • Remember...68
  • Song...69
  • Song...70
  • Constancy...72
  • Requiem...73
  • Autumn Burial...75
  • Sonnet Of Burial...78
  • Nocturne...79
PART TWO
  • Mad Sonnet...89
  • The House Of Youth...90
  • De Profundis...92
  • Prayer...94
  • Sestettes...95
  • Sonnet Of The Instruments Of Death...99
  • Truth...100
  • Hegel...101
  • Monotony...102
  • Sepulture...103
  • Miserrimus...104
  • Scorn...105
  • The Grave...106
  • Mummy...108
  • Sepulchral Life...109
  • Corpse...110
  • Mankind...111
  • The Defilers...112
  • The Grotesques...113
  • Dead Dialogue...117
  • Fragments...122
  • Envoi...133
POSTLUDE
  • Song Of India...137
  • Dedication...143
PART THREE
  • After-Life...147
  • To The Mona Lisa Of Da Vinci...148
PART FOUR
  • The Art Of The Future...151
  • Thoughts On A Decadent Universe by Thomas Ligotti...167
Notes
Introduction by Mark Valentine
Afterword by Thomas Ligotti