Poetry. Gaylord Brewer's third book of poetry evokes all the senses through its use of metaphor, character, landscape and precise imagery with tough, memorable writing. Reviewing Brewer's Presently a Beast in the Asheville Poetry Review, M.A. Roberts writes, "I make the unlikely comparison between Muhammad Ali and Brewer in hopes of some semblance of how Gaylord Brewer approaches the world and how he poetically writes about it. That is, aggressively, unflinchingly, with fluidity and cadence, with playfulness and craft. Brewer's poems are persistent in probing the tough masks of civility, always sniffing out the beast that lurks behind our well-prepared lives."