Zombie Vomit Mad Libs by Duy Doan

Zombie Vomit Mad Libs

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Zombie Vomit Mad Libs

Alice James Books

Zombie Vomit Mad Libs

by Duy Doan

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In Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, the climate has changed, and what mostly remains are zombies meandering through a world where we only have brief memories--where connection (human and zombie) is now only made possible thanks to bits of the salvaged wreckage that was left behind in the apocalypse.

The poems pay homage to horror movies, riff on childhood mad libs, and scatter Vietnamese diacritics over text about iPhones, neurotransmitters, phobias, substance abuse, fleas, and vomit. The stakes are high: these pages are preoccupied with suicide from the start, especially with the deaths and legacies of poet Anne Sexton and Hong Kong actor/singer Leslie Cheung, but they also find ways to smile and serve from fixed narratives, which is where the zombies come to the forefront, wandering through a world where our only shared experiences are fading memories of the final times we encountered chance momentousness in our lifetimes.

Macabre humor is combined with formal inventiveness.

Drawing from broad swaths of history, literature, and pop culture, the forms in this book and the rewriting of conventional zombie narratives enable the poems to avoid the presumptuousness of wisdom. The poems instead expend their energy through playfulness, unassuming declarative statements, and sparse questions.

Folks who love horror movies, especially the little theaters of love and friendship in these films, might appreciate the candor and arrangement of data in lieu of insight and wisdom.
Book Details
Publisher:
Alice James Books
ISBN:
9781949944686
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
100
Authors:
Duy Doan
Published Date:
2024-11-26
Language:
English
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About Duy Doan

Winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by judge Carl Phillips, We Play a Game appeared from Yale University Press in 2018. The collection later received the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. A Vietnamese American poet from Texas, Duy Doan holds an MFA in poetry from Boston University. Fellowship support has come from Kundiman, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. Doan directs the Favorite Poem Project, documenting the role of poetry in American life; he has taught at Boston University, Lesley University, and the Boston Conservatory. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, is where he now lives.

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