therefore, i think

About the Book

THEREFORE I THINK is a book that examines the intersection of science and philosophy. Catching the great minds like a web, science and philosophy have drawn out great mental gymnastics throughout history. Now put into poetry, side by side, these disciplines provoke ruminations on the thoughts and systems that guide our modern lives through base experience, raw data, and pure hope. These poems hope to provide us with an understanding of the framework we have created for answering the call of ourselves. What and where do we find meaning from or in? What answers given and what questions posed have those shapers of experiments offered to us? In a dialectic approach, here are poems that trip the line between that which is science (real) and that which is philosophy (ethereal). These lines set out the myriad attempt to attack, kill, and bring home in a rucksack the slippery, looming, meaning of life.

About the Author

Gabriel Leif Bellman was born in Eugene, Oregon. He was awarded a Bachelor’s from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts (’95), a Master’s from New York University (’99), and a Juris Doctorate from U. C. Hastings ('05). He has been a high-school teacher; MTV producer; umbrella salesman; restaurant host; dishwasher; lumber feeder; assembly liner; slam poet; warehouse stacker; SOMA magazine correspondent; opera composer at Juilliard, groundskeeper; and ‘Playboy’ assistant. He has worked construction (Mexico); lived abroad (Spain, Ireland, Holland); and devoted extensive time to traveling (Europe, North Africa, the United States, Middle East, and Caribbean). He directed a film while traveling with the circus in Ireland (‘Duffy’s Irish Circus’ 2005). He has worked with female prisoners in California. Currently, Mr. Bellman lives in San Francisco where he is an attorney. One of the underrated 3-point shooters of his generation, Mr. Bellman won the Los Angeles city hoops championship in 1995. His agent gladly fields calls about his NBA availability (he will only sign with a title contender).