With bloom upon them and also with blood : a horror miscellany / Justin Phillip Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Justin Phillip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Genre:

poetry.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays

Film criticism

Poetry

Essays.

Poetry.

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

162 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2023.

Summary:

"In 2019, Justin Phillip Reed's romantic maiden voyage through the waters of American poetry and its communities ran aground in the barrens of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when he found himself with two years of writing time on the horizon and no social context to keep him afloat. In anxiety and estrangement soon deepened by global pandemic, popular fascism, virtual being, intestinal distress, and the obscenity of his own privilege as a university pet, he retreated to the comforts of horror films with no intent but diversion. What happened instead was this reckless, unprecious, in-process reckoning. Backdropped by sprawling cemeteries, soundtracked by too much Type O Negative, and totally hung up on cameras, With Bloom Upon Them and Also with Blood is a chase and a trip where lyric essays, ekphrastic poetry, and lectures grapple with alienation, professional disillusionment, perversion, and internal contradiction under racial capitalism through playful and critical encounters with horror cinema and cultural iconography"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

TO SEE WHAT YOUR INSIDES LOOK LIKE. Beginning with alternative taglines for Ma

The brain in sleep presumes that roofs exist without bothering to believe in them

Killing like they do in the movies

Foremeantimeword ["Fore" lined out]: "Pseudo-morals work real well on the talk shows for the weak"

Melancholia, death motion, and the makings of Marilyn Manson

Carry on, wayward son

Carrie

Logic & optics: Gothika

Awaiting acknowledgment: Alien³

After The first purge and in the pandemic I had to start looking at people for real

This is the last of it: Stranger by the lake

Movie pitch

Inadequate vessels; or Simone White says, "A poem that doesn't have its own mind frightens me."

Blacula still a cop film (and so is we)

I begin to live with Ganja & Hess

Three in 2010

Leisure, labor, reticence, violence

Leigh Whannell's The invisible man, or This song is too about you

The black girl best friends at the survivors party

Buffering at 31% when Kira & Will have just clasped hands in the final scene of The invitation

With bloom upon them and also with blood

Eat, fuck, or kill The killing of a sacred deer

Index of films.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Reed, Justin Phillip, With bloom upon them and also with blood

ISBN:

9781566896917

1566896916

OCLC:

1376496248