LIONTAMER'S BLUES

Red Ceilings Press still has available copies of the limited edition print version of my chapbook, A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF. It’s Valentine’s Day. There is a heart on the cover. All it needs is you. Let’s get together &kill this thing.

see: THE RED CEILINGS PRESS

I’m excited to announce that Red Ceilings Press has released an official limited edition of my chapbook, A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF. This limited edition is a pretty little A6 pocket size version expanded with a few new poems and a spiffy redesigned cover by Miles Donovan.

This is a limited run of 40. I have about half of those here. So, let’s sweeten it: if you’re in the US, send me $5.50 and I’ll send you a chapbook along with a spiffy postcard featuring the heart artwork on one side and a handwritten poem on the other.

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Outside of the US, buy direct from Red Ceilings Press!

In his most recent blog post, Ben Tanzer says kind things about my latest NAP chapbook, A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF. Also featured is a chapbook by Greg Santos that I have not yet read, but I will be sure to remedy that situation in the near future. I suggest you join me. Thanks, Ben, for both the kindness and the recommendation!

see: These (Chap) Books Will Change Your Life

Chris Vola flash-reviewed A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF for the Deadly Chaps Press Facebook page and had the following to say:

“David Tomaloff’s A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF is an elegy to a place where the heart’s foibles are lain to tremor, dream-sore: “that things should not escape/doesn’t always mean they don’t”. Prickly-smooth verses skirt the he-said-she wreckage of rebel gardens and cheating mimes, any talisman to pluck at the wane of domestic blear and the wax of sublime synaptic gappery. Love-as-pipe-bomb, nice touch.”

My gratitude to Mr. Vola and to Deadly Chaps head assassin, Joseph Quintela!

Shawn Misener has posted his review of my NAP chapbook, A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF, at the excellent Clutching at Straws website. Thanks, Shawn!

see: Clutching at Straws

My newest chapbook, A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF, is due to be released on August 15th from NAP. The chapbook will be available as a free download in many popular formats and will feature cover art by Miles Donovan of the Daily Robot.

There will be a small number of print copies available as well, though I haven’t decided how to best handle them. If anyone would like to write a blurb or a review on the chapbook, I think I could be persuaded to see that a print copy goes sailing in your general direction. Feel free to email if you’re interested: dtomaloff @ gmail dot com. Otherwise, please enjoy the free version and will I thank you just the same for your support.

Don’t forget to add it on Goodreads. Also, check out a version of the cover artwork as a t-shirt from the artist. Stay tuned and read the first two installments of NAP chapbooks from Steve Subrizi and Amanda Laughtland in the meantime.