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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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642384589073,"sku":"GOR013352846","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52858328809745,"sku":"NIN9780803220409","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803220405.jpg?v=1761389331"},{"product_id":"alamo-theory-book-josh-bell-9781556593994","title":"Alamo Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bell's work is a concoction of the surreal and the hyper-real, the hilarious and the devastating.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"One of the most tonally versatile young poets working today.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In poems that look dense but read in a fluid, easy tumble, Bell offers [in \u003ci\u003eAlamo Theory\u003c\/i\u003e] characters and scenarios that border on the surreal ('no one's getting\/ off this tractor alive, no one without\/ a pod of vanilla, Stuck like a witch's\/ finger in the throat') yet are grounded in everyday discontents ('Apologies\/ to the inhabitants of the condo\/ next to my condo'). The observations are arresting and almost witty, almost wry, and a character named Josh occasionally wanders along to engage with others. Fittingly, voice (and the voice box) feature thematically, as reading this work is like listening raptly to a verbose, intensely smart friend expatiate on life.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A contemporary knockout, Bell's poems run the gamut of good: they're seriously funny, bizarre, wry, ambitious, acrobatic, gorgeous. Sometimes they have zombies.\"--\u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoshua Bell's unnerving and darkly funny second collection of poems inhabits various personae--including a prominent series starring the garrulous and aging rock star Vince Neil from Mötley Crüe--through which he examines paranoid, misogynist, and murderous elements within contemporary American culture. Throughout are prose \"movie poems\" that feature zombies, a summer camp slasher, exorcism, and courtroom drama.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"The Creature\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike many humans, I enjoy lifting small, living things. Your wife qualifies, but doesn't like to be lifted. I guess it's probably because, as is true with many humans, your wife doesn't want to be eaten, and often we are lifted, by the bigger thing, right before it drops us on a rock and eats us. I understand, I say to your wife, lowering her body to the kitchen floor, her legs bending slowly as she takes back the weight I've returned to her, like an astronaut moving back into the gravity of the capsule...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosh Bell\u003c\/b\u003e earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. 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The stories in The Gods in Small Doses depict childhood through a funhouse mirror, as a time of myth and damage, of tenderness and terror. Anything—except what should happen—can happen next.   A retired witch traps a goat-killing feral child, a girl becomes obsessed with the regenerative properties of her younger brother’s body, Armageddon is fought between the forces of good (those who like to go to bed early) and evil (those who prefer to stay up late), a supernatural orphan insinuates his way into an all-American family, the god Poseidon wrecks a high-school house party, and the women of a fabulated island city all mysteriously disappear overnight. In these fast, comic, and troubling tales, sweetness and violence vie to become synonymous.   This is a universe of both realism and surrealism, of magic and the mundane, where strong but deeply flawed characters fight to exert control over things—time, death, themselves—that can’t be controlled. Dreamlike moments of body horror, catastrophe, and absurdity challenge the reader to embrace the taboo and to expect—always—the unexpected. 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