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Poetry/Comics   Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon collects poems and comic strips about sex and gender as viewed through the lens of professional wrestling. In poems written to or about wrestlers like Junkyard Dog, Roddy Piper, Ox Baker, The Ultimate Warrior, The Rock, and CM Punk, Colette Arrand teases out the homoerotic roots of wrestling and how its warped, cartoon masculinity plays itself out over the course of a fan's life.

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"I picked this up at AWP and was blown away by how gorgeous, powerful, and amazing this book was. Highly recommended."

Product details Paperback 68 pages Publisher Opo Books & Objects (January 31, 2017) Language English ISBN-10 0997304812

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Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon Colette Arrand Scott Stripling 9780997304817 Books Reviews

• Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon by Colette Arrand. Opo Books & Objects, 2017. 68 pages. $14.95, paperback.
  
  Arrand’s Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon is divided into three sections The Use of Roland Barthes to Justify One’s Love of Wrestling, Wrestling School (with Scott Stripling), and Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon.
  
  The poems combine wrestling and gender identity in Arrand’s poetry and in Stripling’s comics based on Arrand’s scripts. The language is poignant, and the poems end with a great twist of breath of beauty. In “Channeling Ox Baker,” the poem ends “…Just once, / I’d like to sleep long enough to allow his fist / to hammer my heart, but I am the great heel / of childhood. There’s never any closure / for a heel, just new territories, / new towns, the same old ways to bleed. / I do what I can to heal the scars / but they are mind. I keep them to myself” (16).
  
  Stripling draws “Tree of Woe,” using his usual three panels in this collection. In the first, we see the wrestling walking in the scary woods “One night, while walking an unkempt path…” and in the second panel “A lonely traveler was subjected to…” with the terrifying eyes of the tree to the third panel “The Tree of Woe! I feel like my father never loved me as a ‘sob’ sapling…” with the Tree of Woe crying (39).
  
  In the final section, Arrand’s poem “For Hulk Hogan, Who, By His Own Reasonable Estimate, Has the Largest Arms In the World,” and in couplets, “…Your arms I imagined / variously the jack pressing a car over my father’s body, the cranes // in my mother’s factory, twin pythons that could devour my problems / were I able to scream your name loud enough. I screamed, // but I won’t see you in the flesh until that flesh, no longer taut, / is incapable of its former glories. Until then, I invent my own encounters // and spin those. Here is one once, I claimed to have met you / at a Big Boy restaurant, pouring syrup on a stack of pancakes. // When you took my hand in yours, it disappeared. Then you did. / I need you to cup your ear, Hulk. Tonight, when I call out, come” (54).
  
  The references to wrestling are great, with poems addressed to legends like Hulk Hogan and quotes from the wrestlers and fans, like Roland Barthes and quotes from T-shirts (“You will hate me, T-shirt, worn by Ox Baker in the 1970s”). This collection is a must read for poetry fans, and for those wrestling fans, you’ll enjoy the community.
  
  —Suzanna Anderson
  (originally published in The Magnolia Review, Volume 4, Issue 2)
• There is some trenchant writing exploring maleness and masculinity in this volume, using deeply affecting and beautiful words. Highly recommended.
• Arrand is one of the best poets working today, full stop. This collection is accessible, funny, and moving, while exploring deeper themes (well-read poetry fans will still get a lot out of this book). If you like poetry, wrestling, or really frank writing on LGBT issues (especially the experience of transition, queer attraction to men, and existing within straight male-dominated spaces while being LGBT), you will like this book. If you're even just curious about any of those topics, this is a great read. Can't recommend highly enough.
  
  I bought from the Canadian site so idk if this will say verified purchase or not but, it is one.
  
  If you want a sample before you buy, look up "The Use of Roland Barthes to Justify One's Love of Wrestling". I believe it was published online alongside another poem from this collection. If that doesn't get you hooked, I don't know what's wrong with you.
• Colette is a wonderful poet and has a tremendous understanding of the interplay between professional wrestling and it's inherent relationship with masculinity and sexuality. Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon makes the reader think differently about the subject matter, which is all we can ask of any ruminations on art and form.
• Colette Arrand's poetry is continually staggering. Her work frames wrestling as bodily narrative, flesh as liminal states. It's one of the most insightful readings of the sport I've seen. Highly recommended.
• I picked this up at AWP and was blown away by how gorgeous, powerful, and amazing this book was. Highly recommended.
• Good times