The Orange Spotlight

"there is nothing in my reality that i feel i want enough to try"

There is a subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) sense of fear slowly creeping through the pages of Brandon Scott Gorrell's debut collection During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present (June 20th, 2009 by Muumuu House). Perhaps it is a fear of reveling too much, cutting to close, or perhaps it is the legitimate fear of having a nervous breakdown. Throughout these poems Brandon seems to be looking for something, friends, silence, fame (whatever that means), he is searching meaning in a mostly quiet existence. Yet he, like many, he does not want these things enough to really seek them out. He is trapped in the middle, lost and alone.

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Through the satire and simplification of actions and situations you can begin to see a deeper root, a more profound effective, the true result of time and thought and boredom. Gorrell's book takes you into space and leaves you there floating, embarrassed you forgot how to fly, but then comes back and apologizes.