Go on Bewilderment Poems

Adam Grabowski's Go on Bewilderment is a short book comprised of poems originally written on a typewriter for others. Composed on the spot, in public and with a self-imposed five minute deadline-one doesn't expect much from raw poetry created like this. Perhaps a spark or two to revise later. This collection, however, has purity and passion. To my delight, Adam has created a well-crafted and sensitive bouquet of love poems. Each is a gem, emotionally dense in its simplicity, with surprising turns and strong landings. -Lori Desrosiers, author of Keeping Planes in the Air (Salmon Poetry)Six minutes. How dare Adam Grabowski compose these dashing poems-each in flirtation with a single word-in under six minutes. It's important to note that a typewriter makes certain demands of a writer. Commitment, mainly. And even as he labored against keys and a deadline, Grabowski breathes real vitality into these poems. He understands "we live indoors despite such / wildness."Go On Bewilderment is like taking a walk with someone you want to get to know better. The type of person who can strike with an unfathomable charm and say things like, "of course it's more than that / a snowing inside you / that I know, that I follow / out of the darkness / ask me anything you want. "These poems are the quick and insurmountable gushing of love; its extravagance found in every imaginable thing. Grabowski holds equal attention to words, to a lover ("dove to my mouth"), to the entire ecstatic state of life-something Whitman knew a little about. Even when we are held up, as we so often are, by heavier realities, there is still, always, the whisper-the pure origin of a thing. In Go On Bewilderment, Adam Grabowski is in conversation with that whisper. -Hannah Larrabee, author of Wonder Tissue (Airlie Press)