Download or read book No Planets Strike written by Josh Bell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Bell's No Planets Strike is a scary and deeply moving voyage through a wide spectrum of very American self-confrontation. With a voice that can move easily across many dialects and moods--a voice that can mutter, "Ramona, I can't sleep, I shot / too many Indians. I shot and shot / but they wouldn't fall down"--This powerful first collection reminds us of all that is untranslatably American in our experience, as well as our language. It is a mesmerizing tonal range Bell achieves--"reach[ing] for the sky"--being ground down by a reality of deep psychic and national orphanhood--one that is, as well, bravely clear-headed, capable of grief without self-pity, filled with dark humor--sassy, witty, caustic, dying to love and be loved, trying not to sell out to powers visible and invisible. This is a speaker who has seen too much, felt too much, who cannot bear much more, but who still believes in us, and in his job, enough to try to bring back an accurate report from the large and the small broken heart. --Jorie Graham.