Why don't more guys read poetry? Because it doesn't speak to them. As contemporary poets tackle subjects like incest, menstruation, and pine cones, regular guys are left scratching their heads. Who can speak for Everyman? Who will give voice to his passions, his fears, his dreams? Who can articulate his love for Xbox 360, for Mama Celeste's Frozen Pizzas, for virtually any movie starring Bruce Willis? Enter "Broetry" - a stunning debut from a dazzling new literary voice. Broet Laureate Brian McGackin gives voice to the trials and tribulations of today's man. He goes where no poet has gone before - to Star Wars conventions, to frat parties, to video game tournaments and more. His poems include: "Reflections on Taylor Swift"; "Ode to That Girl I Dated for, Like, Two Month Sophomore Year"; "My Friends Who Don't Have Student Loans"; "Song of Mama Celeste"; "Haikougar"; and, many more. As the poems progress, we follow our Bro from high school graduation and college through a quarter life crisis and beyond. Packaged in a small gifty hardcover and illustrated with tasteful black and white illustrations, "Broetry" is a funny and sly study of modern masculinity.
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an exhilarating and refreshing collection of poems that could revolutionise the way blokes express themselves. Highly recommended.New Classics, Sept, 2011 .....just daft and quite funny ..Captain D Book Reviews and News, Sept, 2011....I also enjoyed the poems here, they are engaging and clever and written on topics that most people (specially dudes) can relate to. Plus there's a good, self deprecating sense of humour in here: Classical music. It makes you smarter. And admit it, you could be more cultured; you just picked up a book called Broetry. from Why You Should Listen to Classical Music So yeah, pick this book up and give it to the men in your life who don't like poetry. Or even those who do. --Crafty Green Poet, Sept, 2011
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Self-described Broet Laureate Brian McGackin is a fully licensed and accredited poet (which is to say that he's just received his MFA in Creative Writing from USC). He lives in Los Angeles, California. Website: Owns BrianMcGackin.com, PoetryforDudes.com and BroetryPoetryforDudes.com and trying to acquire Broetry.com Twitter: twitter.com/bpmcgackin Facebook: Brian McGackin. Lars Leetaru's illustrations have been everywhere -- The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Forbes, New York Magazine, Fast Company, Smart Money, Barron's, ESPN Magazine, Inc., Men's Journal, I could go on and on. He also did the stunning cover painting for Quirk's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS.
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By Sue
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Well this little book is some thing out of the ordinary you dont have to be a prude to read it but just except it as it come, some of the "Poems" make me smile,, it is not for every one but I will share it to see what others think.....
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Why should Bennington girls get to write all the crappy poems?
25 July 2011
By Thomas E. Bassett
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Format:Hardcover
There's lot of mediocre poetry out there about the many, many things McGackin's intended readers aren't interested in. So it's only fair, I say, that they also get a collection of just plain bad poems that speaks to them, finally, about things they *do* care about--chicken wings, Thursday night drinking, and hooking up with freshman girls. McGackin has struck a blow for equality in another way as well: Isn't it time that straight young males have a voice of some kind in today's America?
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13 July 2011
By JP Zazarra
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Format:Hardcover
I laughed, I cried, I shotgunned a Coores, and then dominated at a beer pong tournament. This is the greatest advancement in bro literature I have seen since Ernest Hemingway, the ultimate bro, wrote that book about fishing.
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1 July 2012
By Jennifer Sicurella
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Format:Hardcover
Why read: Received for review
What impressed me: I'm no poetry fan, but I could get through this book easily and managed to be mildly entertained for the most part.
What disappointed me: The novelty of McGackin's voice wears off about four poems in. If feels like it's supposed to be really funny, but completely misses the mark landing nearer unusual. Broetry proves poetry can be written for the masses, but it failed to strike a chord in me.
Recommended: Not really. It's only appeal is in its quirkiness.
What impressed me: I'm no poetry fan, but I could get through this book easily and managed to be mildly entertained for the most part.
What disappointed me: The novelty of McGackin's voice wears off about four poems in. If feels like it's supposed to be really funny, but completely misses the mark landing nearer unusual. Broetry proves poetry can be written for the masses, but it failed to strike a chord in me.
Recommended: Not really. It's only appeal is in its quirkiness.
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