THE MONSTRANCE

The Monstrance, Bryan D. Dietrich’s sixth book of poems, is a love story. Set in the world of James Whale’s 1931 film version of Frankenstein, these poems document the lives and loves of a monster and a gypsy, a huffy hunchback, a lame priest, and the not-so-mad scientist himself. What begins with test tubes and Tesla coils ends in grace and graveyard picnics. Heartwarming and horrifying, love itself is resurrected here and set striding, a lost creature, livid and longing, but never alone.

About the Author

Bryan D. Dietrich is the author of six books of poems and a book-length study on comics. He is also co-editor of Drawn to Marvel, an anthology of superhero poetry. His poetry has been published in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares, Weird Tales, Asimov’s, Harvard Review, Yale Review, and many other journals. Bryan has won numerous awards for his work, including the Paris Review Prize and an Asimov’s Readers’ Choice Award, and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Pulitzer. Professor of English at Newman University, Bryan lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife, Gina, their son, Nick, and three cats…one of them evil.

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