Evan J. Peterson
Auteur de Aim For the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry
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The latter, of course, is what zombies started out as under Romero and it's good to see the poets here acknowledging this root and providing more than just horror thrills and cheap laughs. It is very effective, delving deep into cynicism (the last poem ends with "the zombies, by this point / will simply lose their taste for us" (pg. 123)) and making some thoughtful points. But it is the human angle which most astonished me. Consider the end of this poem on page 121, which juxtaposes a bitter break-up in a relationship with being bitten by a zombie:
"I tell myself it's going to be fine,
that she hasn't infected me
with a growing darkness
that I am not simply running on muscle memory
that my heart has not become a zombie.
I tell myself it was only
a scratch."
Favourites include: 'Fifteen Ways to Stay Alive', 'Leaving Ashlee', 'Welcome Home, You Said', 'Fear and Embrace', '13 Ways of Looking at a Baby' and 'Advent'.… (plus d'informations)