Full Description
No Planets Strike, the debut collection of poetry by Josh Bell, reads as a playfully serious record of modernity. Subversive in their treatment of the contemporary voice, broad in their subject matter, and often delightfully funny, the poems in this collection have a brilliant ear language.
Contents
Coming AttractionsThe Beautiful American PoemSleeping with ArtemisZombie SundayA Meditation Concerned with What You Might Be Meditating About, RamonaMy Week as a Pornographic Film QueenDear SongZombie Sunday (The Dear Reader Version)War PoemPoem to Line My Casket with, RamonaZombie Sunday (The Epic Version)The Horse Leech's DaughterZombie Sunday (Had We but World Enough and Time)Poem Voted Most LikelyZombie SundayLove Double-Wide (Your Love Is Like a Bad Tattoo)Pantoum for Houston (Director's Cut)Sheriff, You Forgot Yer HatMilk DivisionIn My Oft-Quoted Guide to Clouds and Weather, RamonaSurviving LoveZombie SundaySleeping with WaitressesMeditation on InsomniaDrugstoreZombie SundaySleeping with J.A.First, Second, Twenty-Fifth, and Thirty-Ninth Lines Courtesy of Thomas CampionPoem against Matt Guenette's Ex-GirlfriendThe Care and Feeding of MermaidsSpace DementiaEpithalamion, Ex Post FactoWatching Poetry Readings on Videotape in Apartment #5Ramona's ThemeNotes for a Movie Entitled Revenge of the NecrophiliacsSleeping with Julia RobertsZombie Sunday (A Short Poetical History of Spring)Ramona Ex MachinaZombie SundayCyborg
