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Brandon Scott Gorrell's debut full-length poetry book captures the feelings of small, alienated, and highly self-conscious humans who exist in an array of situations, from a very odd Halloween party to a full-scale planetary war involving humans, androids, robots, and aliens. Focusing on severe feelings of low self-worth, meaninglessness, and yearning for something unknown, Brandon Scott Gorrell (who has generated a large internet following of disenchanted youth) uses predominately science fiction imagery in direct, deadpan prose to describe humans in need of meaning that they feel hopeless to attain. "Bret Easton Ellis for the Gmail chat generation." - Kelley Hoffman, Refinery 29"[O]ne of the best books of American poetry I've read in years [...] I recommend [it] very, very highly." - Michael Schaub, Bookslut "Gorrell's book is a thoughtful yet humorous collection of entertaining poems. [...] Makes me wish I had kept up with poetry writing." - Jeffrey Brown, author of Clumsy and Funny Misshapen Body"[E]xcruciatingly intimate..." - Bomb Magazine"[T]horoughly confounding [...] either extremely easy to understand or extremely befuddling [...]." - Molly Young, We Love You So"Such hilarious, surprising, aphoristic poems. They do not stop at funny: they move into the territory of sad; the drab panic of daily life." - Deb Olin Unferth, author of Vacation and Revolution "I like these poems. I really do. They made me laugh." - Matthew Rohrer, author of A Green Light and Rise Up "I feel lonely, and while I'm lonely, reading this book makes me feel less lonely." - Noah Cicero, author of The Human War "I have been going through a thing lately of not feeling like I want to read, unless I 'have' to (like I'm on a bus or something), but I read Brandon's book and enjoyed it a lot and felt excited." - Chris Killen, author of The Bird Room"Gorrell's poetic landscapes are vast and intangible. His poems explore outer space, Internet, the mind." - The Rumpus"Gorrell mixes humor, personification, and hyperbole to show the narrator's inability to relate to people. [...] A line like 'i want to sleep on a zebra while it gets eaten by a lion' may sound funny, but it shows the narrator's desire for a passive but violent death." - Hipster Book ClubRead More