written by Ryan Mecum
published by How
Books
ISBN-10:
1600610706
ISBN-13:
978-1600610707
reviewed
by Adam Armstrong
09.10.2008
What’s better
than zombies and poetry? Zombie poetry.
Chris Lynch is
scared and has locked himself in an airport bathroom. All he has with him is a
poetry journal taken from a zombie who used to be named Ryan Mecum. The journal
outlines Mecum’s final days and how he became one of the undead searching out
brains to feast on. And it paints a possible future for Lynch.
I love all
things zombie. While the book is dedicated to George Romero the zombies inside
are actually more like John Russo zombies: they can talk (and apparently write
in haiku form) and they eat brains. The story is told from the perspective of a
zombie which is a little different than normal. The haiku part is a little
questionable. It is more like prose in seventeen syllable sentences. Poetry is
powerful and each line can stop one in their tracks. But this is more
tongue-in-cheek and doesn’t take itself too seriously, so I won’t either.
Worth a look
from the zombie fans everywhere and it is nicely affordable with a little
searching.
Pick up a copy:
4 out of 5.
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haiku review by Mistophiles
and L. Gersley
08.25.2008
In the beginning
life was average and safe
until the death-bite
Then came the hunger
I ate my wife and her brains
delicious and soft
Somehow I still write
another undead like me
writes and hungers too
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reviewed by L. Gersley (age 12)
08.20.2008
Zombie Haiku is
about two men, one turns into a zombie and writes about how and what he killed
in a journal. The other one finds the
journal by smashing the zombie’s head and writes what happened to him. In the end he turns into a zombie from the
zombie he killed.
I think Zombie
Haiku is an interesting book with an accurate story line and interesting
pictures.