Rigormarole: Zombie Poems
Naked Snake Press, 2005
Rigormarole (2005)
ISSN 1545-7202, 40 pages
- 200 Signed/Numbered softcover editions
Art by John Skipp
| Highlight | Includes the Rhysling Award-Nominated poem, "Those Who Landed..." |
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| Art by legendary zombie author John Skipp |
Contents:
- Nightmarried
- Those Who Landed, Surprised to Discover that Zombies Had Taken Over the Planet
- How the Zombie Holocaust Changed the Holiday Shopping Season
- Home Depot of the Dead
- Zombeanie Babies
- Artist of the Living Dead
- Advice from the Redneck Survivor
- Pecking Zombies
- Zombie Spurt
- Skulls are Too Funny
- Brain Chunks
- Unhinged
- Reminder
- English Zombie Breakfast
- Brain Drain
- Jesus Wept, But
- Stranded at Colonial Isle
- Ice
- Transcrypt
- Rigormarole
- Cuddling the Dead Kitten
- Why Zombies Lumber
Praise/Reviews:
"Reanimated flesh, cannibalism, brain succotash...the stuff that great poetry is made of! Mike Arnzen fuses humor and gore with a poetic sensibility to create his own fun subgenre! Come in and take a bite!" --Tom Piccirilli, author of November Mourns
"Arnzen's loopy little grossout confections are charming, hilarious exemplars of f*cked-up concision. Few are more than a sprinkling of sentences long. All are full of delightful (albeit rancid and gooey) surprises, and, as such, are much better to read than to eat. My verdict? Mike Arnzen is the finest zombie poet who ever lived, then died and came back." --John Skipp, The Hard Way (editor of Mondo Zombie)
"An eclectic and often inspired collection, Arnzen provides for both those that love zombies and those that are sick of them, because you cannot help but laugh at some of these while being amazed at the zen-like depth of others. Traveling from standard zombie fair into new mythos and creative word play, the subject matter of the collection is as diverse as the rhythm and meter used in the individual poems. Through the varied use of third vs first person and pensive vs whimsical, Arnzen offers something for everyone." --Horror-Web
