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Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Life is full of love, joy, grief, disbelief and belief, contradictions and controversy, and so much more. But what is life to those who are living? Ask a poet. Life is full of profound thoughts, but only for those who think, only those who believe and play their parts well, like Shakespeare who defined life so well. Life is like that and as Paul Gorman writes in Poet Gone Wild: More Matters of Love and Death, “I played my part/ but was poorly cast/ now looking back/ I should have asked/ how can I not / live in the past.” The past, our past, is life as we lived it. When you think about it, you can’t live in the future because it hasn’t happened yet. “I am just/ a human being/ and a human doing/ feeling and seeing” and “always changing/ as perceived by me/ life arranging/ as I believe it to be.”
Gorman Poetry/Paul Gorman’s chapbook, Poet Gone Wild, is a serious look at life, living, and the one thing we are all assured will happen in our lives: death. Like all Gorman’s poems, this collection is both thought-provoking and intuitive. Written primarily in rhyming verse, the poet explores complex issues surrounding the art of living. Each poem is simple in its format and presentation; each word the poet uses is infused with the power of multiple meanings. Sage words, sage advice, and sage wisdom will have readers reflecting on thoughts shared in these poems: “we create more than what is/ then why make problems/ to continually relive.”
