February 13, 2006

Tom Beckett, Little Book of Zombie Poems (2005). 24 pages. Free.

An e-chap available for the asking here.

The opening poem sets the parameters:

Structure=zombie.
Zombie=incident.

...Anything that occurs
in a structure

is a feeling
that's part zombie (p.1; ll. 3-4, 9-12).

So as with all things zombie, they have the potential to show up anywhere, right when you least/most expect it. Beckett gives us all the warning signs: they are constantly horny, they smell sweet, they eat cold pizza and drink warm beer, they clone themselves, they don't read poetry... It seems that full-on eros and passion may be the only things to save us from becoming zombified (ie. lifelessly structured) ourselves.

Fun and smart.