My debut poetry collection, NO MOON, is now available for pre-order from Outlandish Press (
@outlandish.press ). Link in bio. Shipping begins July 18th. There's also an accompanying spoken word album on cassette done in collaboration with Chicago musician Lamb Null (
@lambnull ) (expect more work from us!), featuring saxophonist Quetzal Tirado (
@oculiquetzal ). A preview of the track "Grandmother", along with the full text of the poem, can be previewed on the Outlandish Press website. Cover art by Sailor Stephens (
@weaklings_die ). Launch party at
@macs_backs with special guests on July 19th, more details on that soon.
"In No Moon, his first collection of poetry, Colby Smith is as anarchic, uncanny, and rigorous as his short fiction; and, at times, even more so. His poems, in equal and deft range, are as terse and somber as Japanese Modernist works, as maximalist as Hart Crane, and as innocently furious as post-hardcore and screamo, in line with the international Neo-Decadent movement of which he is a part. Within are serious treatments of his paternal grandmother’s upbringing in a company town, the discovery of the Taung Child, the COVID-era Danish mink culling, humans elevating industrial registered trademarks over Adam’s names, mass-surveilling the natural world, as well as idiosyncratic tributes to the musicians Tracy Pew and Richey Edwards. Watch and wait—the moon will be gone soon…"
CONTENTS:
"Grandmother"
"My Bicameral Mind (i am no eunuch, i am a castrato)"
"Nudity"
"For the Bloated Dead Heart of E. Presley"
"Volk Song"
"At President McKinley's Tomb, Independence Day, 2023"
"Oysters' Rosary"
"in*sect*snuff"
"Depleted Tungsten Deposit Blues"
"The Passion of Limes"
"They Did Not Bury Tracy Pew Beneath the Tub in Which He Died"
"Gift Shop Fossils"
"Filming Gardens"
"Kite Pollution"
"Elegy for the Taung Child"
"Skinning Minks Stains Sinks"
"Notes on Teeth"
"Un chanson de Richey Edwards' Gashed Arm"
"My Young Superior, So Pale"
"My Golden Pavilion"
"No Moon"
Dedicated to the memory of Rodrigo Moro
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