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“Warning: Do not read SUDDENLY, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE!!! at your desk while pretending to work, or worse, while eating or drinking, or you will choke on a chip and squirt coffee across the room through your nose, if you get off lucky. SUDDENLY, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE!!! is the perfect gift for lit nerds who love the OED and the Urban Dictionary with equal sweaty fervor. SUDDENLY, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE!!! is tender to word and flesh, every page is delicious.”

– Donna Hilbert, Gravity: New & Selected Poems

“The title of Brian Harman’s amazing-a’blazing collection of poetry from Picture Show Press, SUDDENLY, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE!!!, is a literary veracity—not a hyperbole. Harman’s exuberant streams of consciousness jam-packed with iconoclastic vibes and jibes, his been-to-hellzapoppin-and-back grit-and-wit displays of cognitive content steam-heats every page. Brian Harman’s an emboldened, bountiful Bukowski on a voracious-veracious bender. An undaunted Dante, he can create, as proven in his poem “#FoodPorn,” fired-up parataxis excitations hot enough to scorch Satan’s bacon. After all, Brian rhymes with fryin’.”

—Joan Jobe Smith, Moonglow Á Go-Go: New and Selected Poems