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The Oregon Trail Is The Oregon Trail (2012)

by Gregory Sherl(Favorite Author)

4.37 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

098302636X (ISBN13: 9780983026365)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Mud Luscious Press

review 1: This is definitely a book to keep in your purse, backpack, or pocket for frequent reading. The book follows a speaker who is apparently trapped in a perpetual loop of the computer game Oregon Trail. He and his family face hardships, conquer them, and are sometimes conquered themselves. The book is rich with surprising metaphor, and the speaker's voice is very strong. The poems in this book are, in keeping with Sherl's style, full of sex, love, and the longing for both - topics by which I, for one, am entranced. Additionally, there is a lot of humor, partly to be found in jokes and partly just in the startling nature of some of the metaphor. Oh man. I'm going to get flowery if I keep going on. If you like life, and poetry, and sex, and being in love, and the feeling of wist... morefulness, and having a sense of humor and acceptance about bad things, and looking at life in new ways, READ THIS BOOK. Read it anyway.
review 2: seriously batting eyelashes, "O you" and "am i blushing right now" at mud luscious and gregory sherl. age-old trick--very "trout fishing in america"--revamped perfectly to reside in a beautiful, honest place. it's not quite fan fiction and not quite the abstract, experimental "stand-in" that "trout fishing" was. the river is forded on page 1. people get syphilis. great jokes that are all "nostalgia" without being too gimmicky. the stories are very personal vignettes about a sweet, ever evolving cast of trail-players (oxen & babes & babies) though they often switch to the sterilized lens of an omniscient being, perhaps your hard drive peering down from the 8bit oregon sky. this book is such an infinite babe, give mud luscious press all of your money. less

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