Winter Wish
- WINTER WISH - A black ink and gray color pencil drawing on a 12 x 16 illustration board. It appears on the dust jacket of, "Winter Wish," a book of poetry by H.P. Lovecraft, published by Whispers Press.
I have enjoyed reading Lovecraft's fiction, as well as his volumes of selected letters published by Arkham House. His fiction is based on his philosophy; " The opinions of the masses are of no interest to me, I could not write about, "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them. It is man's relation to the Cosmos, to the unknown, which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. Pleasure to me is the wonder in the unexplored, the unexpected".
But Lovecraft had a serious flaw in his philosophy which is not apparent in those biographical Arkham House books, it is revealed in an article he wrote for an amateur magazine. This is what he wrote; "The negro is fundamentally the biological inferior to all white, and even Mongolian races, and the northern people must occasionally be reminded of the danger which they may incur in admitting him too freely to the privileges of society and government". This from Lovecraft, how unexpected.
I was surprised again, unexpectedly as I watched a TV special celebrating the life of Carl Sandburg, a man honored as one of America's greatest writers and poets. Sandburg actually spent the first half of his life trying to overthrow the American government! He conspired with communists and tried to bring their socialist plans into this country to start a revolution! But they caught him before he could distribute them. It was all hushed up and he was forgiven! After all, he was a great American writer and poet! In his later years he wrote a masterful three volume edition on the life of Abraham Lincoln, which I read. I finished the third volume, "The War Years," getting quite emotional as I read of Lincoln's death train rolling slowly across the country, village by village. So, who was Carl Sandburg? . . . My enemy? . . . My friend? . . . What should I make of him?
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