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“during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present“-Brandon Scott Gorrell-Muumuu House 2009

"during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present"-Brandon Scott Gorrell

I read this book from “cover to cover” in what I’ll go ahead and say was one sitting. Brandon Scott Gorrell’s poetry presents a very different persona than his “Internet persona” and it made me happy to read these poems and get some sort of “introspective look” into Brandon Scott Gorrell. But he would just be lying, though I don’t think that would make a difference.

This is poetry without pretense. It is modern and “real,  and self-deprecating and accusatory at the same time. Together these poems read like a statement on the “human condition” but in a very “everyday” way like it could be the “voice of a generation.”

My favorite poem from this collection is “the best moments of my life were the worst moments of my life if you consider the past and the future” which Brand Scott Gorrell posted on his blog last week and I think that’s what made me end up purchasing his book. It’s beautiful.

My favorite line from the entire book though comes from the poem “great” where Brandon Scott Gorrell says “i want to graze on the native grasses” while presenting the image of himself as a deer in the rock mountains. That line made me smile and wish I had written it first because it seems really powerful. It seems very classic, like T.S. Eliot would have written it.

Brandon Scott Gorrell seems to have a fixation with the apocalypse which is something we have in common and I would hope most humans think about it as well because it’s probably going to occur here sometime soon. This book would be a good starting place if you want to get an idea of how the world might end.

Also, Brandon Scott Gorrell is not afraid of heights. He relates to them, sometimes envies them and I respect that.

Man, I really don’t know what to say about a poetry book as is probably evident in this review and the one I wrote yesterday. Just know that this book is really, really good and if you like poetry, I guess modern poetry, you will like this book and you should buy it from Brandon Scott Gorrell.

p.s. this is what I looked like while I was writing this: