No Moon
Finally! the moon is gone!
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…
Colby Smith is a native of Beckley, West Virginia and is currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Ironic Skeletons (Snuggly Books, 2022), The Universe as Performance Art (Eibonvale Press, 2024) and, with prominent comix-artist Josh Bayer, Fish Turn Colors Then Break In My Hands (Stone Church Press, 2023).
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Finally! the moon is gone!
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…
Colby Smith is a native of Beckley, West Virginia and is currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Ironic Skeletons (Snuggly Books, 2022), The Universe as Performance Art (Eibonvale Press, 2024) and, with prominent comix-artist Josh Bayer, Fish Turn Colors Then Break In My Hands (Stone Church Press, 2023).
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PRE ORDER - SHIPS OUT JULY 18th!
preview audio HERE
Finally! the moon is gone!
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…
Colby Smith is a native of Beckley, West Virginia and is currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Ironic Skeletons (Snuggly Books, 2022), The Universe as Performance Art (Eibonvale Press, 2024) and, with prominent comix-artist Josh Bayer, Fish Turn Colors Then Break In My Hands (Stone Church Press, 2023).
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PRE ORDER - SHIPS OUT JULY 18th!
preview audio HERE