Charles Fryer

Donald Sidney-Fryer (born September 8, 1934) is an American poet, critic, literary historian, ballet historian, and performer. Edmund Spenser and Clark Ashton Smith are his “two poetic mentors.” Sidney-Fryer sees his poetry as part of a "Modern Romanticism" tradition along with Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, George Sterling, and other poets he calls the “California Romantics”. Poet Richard L. Tierney said Sidney-Fryer's poems "make us see ... the ideals that moved us when we were less 'secure' an…