No Planets Strike | 
 enlarge | Author: Josh Bell
Publisher: Bison Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 400809
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 80
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0803220405
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN: 9780803220409
ASIN: 0803220405
Publication Date: September 1, 2008 (New: This Week)
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No Planets Strike, the debut collection of poetry by Josh Bell, reads as a playfully serious record of modernity. 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. (20080324)
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Indiana Hidden Treasure December 31, 2007
I remember this guy from my childhood. we sort of grew up together. I bought the book for that reason, but after reading it I have to say even if you don't share any childhood memories with Joshua Bell, you should buy this book. it's worth it.
A girl like you once showed me how the moon committed suicide. February 24, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Josh Bell's No Planets Strike is as beautiful as it is frightening. Bell takes his title from Shakespeare's Hamlet, and seems to take on the perspectives of characters like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and the two spear-carriers standing at the edge of the stage--that is, this book is about "minor characters;" there are no heroes here, only the "normal," and justly so, Bell dissects, in his poetry, our own unspoken view points on unrequited love and male sexuality with humor and a deft understanding of language. Bell writes to us in "series poems," where we get to see what it was like to sleep with Artemus and Julia Roberts in the same book, and we get a whole new defenition of "muse" with overtly cruel and unapologetic Ramona. I celebrate Josh's great book, and I think that we're going to hear from him again.
Poems to Write Home About & Call Everyone You Know February 6, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
No Planets Strike is an indelible collection. Sometimes you order a poetry book and it turns out only one or two poems rock, and some are okay and the others blow. Not so for this book: every poem astounds with moxie and prowl. It's a page-turner. It's a must-have.
The Finest March 7, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Josh Bell's poems trammel down the page with a sacred urgency. They are layered, well-read, savvy creatures with heavy heads and a sadness so beautiful, so sharp-edged that the poems nearly hum with it. Bell holds his poetry to the highest standards and this book, though a first, contains the weight and mass of any great book. There is no poem here that isn't fully realized and in each, one senses the massive library that the author contains and employs. While readers will hear echoes from that library, Josh Bell has a music, deep and true that is fully, terribly, gorgeously his own. There is a tone here too, of one who has, in full zombie regalia, known various deaths and is pressed to witness them for us. Another tone plays against this: one that suggests that these poems know more than they'll ever share with us, they know how to take care of their own, how to always keep more secrets just beneath the ones they disclose. They've had their diaries read in the past and this time, for this telling, they'll do the gleaning and what they bring back is some of the finest poetry you'll ever read.
Catch these poems now, so at cocktail parties you can say that you found them before the masses did. This book raises the bar.
Writes so well he'll make you jealous. February 24, 2005
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've been waiting for this collection of poems to come out for years. Josh Bell is an incredibly ambitious, hysterically funny, and deeply literary poet (and he is never pretentious). Reading his poems will make you laugh out loud. If you're a poet, reading his poems will inspire you to write, simply because he consistently shows the phenomenal things the English language can be made to do. An absolute must-read, it's sure to become a classic.
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