Happy to share this VIA the kind folks at Plain Wrap:
“Plain Wrap Press will publish David Tomaloff’s ‘Sleep’ as part of its Gumdrop Chapbook Series. David’s ‘Sleep’ plays a game of multiple choice that uses simple, beautiful language to engage and surprise us.
Plain Wrap Press will provide a release date for David’s chapbook in the next two weeks.”
Stoked, I am. Very. And we will sleep together.
Everyone, I’m excited to be a part of this limited edition print project from Connotation Press. Details VIA Meg Tuite:
“Smoking Mirrors” is now available for pre-order and will be shipped out on March 10th. It is a limited signed edition so place your orders to ensure you will get a copy! The artist is Matthew Tuite and 17 writers wrote stories/poems inspired by the art. The writers are: Robert Vaughan, Len Kuntz, Ryan W. Bradley, Tara Laskowski, David Tomaloff, Michelle Messina Reale, Gregory Sherl, Kristine Ong Muslim, Eryk Wenziak, Nicolette Wong, Corey Zeller, Joseph Quintela, Frank Reardon, Nicelle Davis, Kona Morris, Mary Stone Dockery and Meg Tuite. It’s a beautiful hand-stitched book with the brilliant artwork of Matt and exceptional writing! Get your copy now!”
SEE: SMOKING MIRRORS at CONNOTATION PRESS
[originally published here]
My man in Glasgow (and fiction editor over there at A-Minor), Kenny Mooney, invited me to take part in a thing called The Next Big Thing, which is kind of a chain letter in the form of a blog post, except it’s more of a self-interview/self-promo/opportunity to promote the work of others sort of thing. So, win/win/win, right? Probably, yes, at least in theory
What is your working title of your book (or story)? PIXEL REVOLT | remixed {+ekphrastic poems based on the John Vanderslice companion album}. This title may very well change.
Where did the idea come from for the book? I am always interested in the way art forms can inspire and/or cannibalize one another; how they can live independent of one another, and still remain intrinsically connected. Being familiar with Vanderslice’s original PIXEL REVOLT album, I was taken with how the instrumental deconstructive remixes had effectively shed their own voices. I felt inspired to imagine new, equally fragmented voices for the music.
NOTE (a):
JV’s Pixel Revolt remix album can be downloaded for free here.
NOTE (b):
An outtake version of one of the poems, PLYMOUTH ROCK (alt. remix), has been recently published by Truck. See it here.
What genre does your book fall under? Poetry. Ekphrastic. Alternative Black Robot Metal [slash] Sentient Data Rock [slash] Down-Core Noise-Wave meets Bruise-Wave in an alley where the former bodies of analog synthesizers once planned the eventual rise of New Conspiracy Theory Post-Content-Core.
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition? I would like for there to be a robot character called Caramel, who would ideally be played by an actual robot named Caramel. Caramel would be portrayed as a wall of ancient sci-fi military computers projecting audio-video montages, soundtracked by the album & played by a revolving cast of known and unknown actors and actresses. Spoiler alert: You will wonder how you are seeing these images. Four years after the premier of the film, another will be released as a prequel, revealing that Caramel is God and that the concept is God is an illusion created in a 1950s laboratory and placed into the machine-fed collective conscience stream. In short, it will be revealed that we are all of us nothing more than an accumulation of data; we are our stories made of digital fog, and every food we have ever known is nothing more than oyster crackers reconstituted into some other imagined form.
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book? This is not light; these are not vast breathing oceans.
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? I hope to count on the independent small press world to offer a tiny place for it when the time comes, whether in print or online. Failing that, who knows? That the work is read is what matters most.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript? It’s a short manuscript—14 short poems based on 14 songs, each with a separate footnote poem (so, 28 poems). Most of the original draft of 14 poems was done in a single album sitting, which was part of the point of the project. A second listen patched up some holes that I’d missed. The footnote poems took another couple of weeks. Some are still in progress. It doesn’t sound like much, I know, but sometimes the real effort is spent finding the right avenue, particularly with ekphrastic work.
What other books would you compare this story to within your genre? As the work contained within the work is of an ekphrastic nature, I think it could hang out casually at parties with WE BURY THE LANDSCAPE by Kristine Ong Muslim and THE MOON & OTHER INVENTIONS: POEMS AFTER JOSEPH CORNELL by Kristina Marie Darling, though both are full-length books, and in no way am I making direct comparisons to those fine authors or their work.
Who or what inspired you to write this book? Mastodons, mostly. That and the disembodied voices of the doomed crewmen on the spaceship in the 1979 videogame,Asteroids. So, the same stuff as everyone, probably.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest? I’m sorry if this wasn’t made clear; this is a poetry chapbook—I know not of these “interested readers” of whom you speak.
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Next week, look for The Next Big Thing blog posts from CODE FOR FAILURE author Ryan W. Bradley, the ubiquitous Howie Good, and publishing mogul/textual gangster, Chad Redden. Word is that the fabulous Meg Tuite will be participating as well. That, you will surely want to read.
My chapbook, DEVIL’S INSTANT COFFEE is now available free online from Right Hand Pointing. DEVIL’S INSTANT COFFEE is the co-winner of the 2012 Right Hand Pointing chapbook contest. I’m beyond pleased to share this with you. Thank you, Dale Wisely. And Special thanks to Keith Higginbotham, who provided early inspiration to many of these poems, as mentioned in the book. Pass it on!
Here we are already halfway through November. I’m going to quickly round a few things up & invite you in to party with them, hands waving & bodies convulsing in the awkward dance moves of your choice.
You can find my 25 Points review of Kristina Marie Darling’s fantastic Gold Wake Press book, THE BODY IS A LITTLE GILDED CAGE at HTML Giant. Feel free to comment & beat me up some. After all, it isn’t HTML Giant without a good eye-gouging, is it?
Scott Bugher at Split Lip Magazine asked Tyler Gobble some questions, & then he asked me for some words about Tyler. It’s a crazy mixed-up world, where sometimes you have to swan dive off the top bunk & trust that the floor is made of soft, delicious pudding.
Joseph A. W. Quintela graciously granted my poem Dear Tenants in Room 16 a Pushcart nomination, for which I am grateful.
You can find my photograph [untitled] published over at the newly resurrected Mad Rush.
Swoon’s brilliant videopoem PROOF, which features my words & voice was recently screened as part of an international film poetry festival in Athens.
It’s never too late to enjoy 13-word horror stories, so, if you haven’t yet, please check out my Artistically Declined Press chapbook XIII:R. Also, Goodreads it!
Lastly, I’ve begun make art prints available at both Society 6 and Red Bubble. Find me, friend me, check out the neat-o wares!
Thank you for reading this far. Please don’t stop dancing on account of my signing off.
Who wants candy, my little H’weenies? Take your bag over to Uncle Deerbird’s house & download my new e-chap, XIII:R TH1RT3EN REAN1MAT3D. Don’t forget to GOODREADS it! Thanks, ARTISTICALLY DECLINED PRESS!
Swoon’s video for SEAFARER, my Origami Poems Project chapbook, is currently up at Dave Bonta’s Moving Poems site. Many heck yeahs, yes.
Origami Poems Project has just released my second tiny chapbook with them, DAY+DANCING, which features cover art donated by the one only Eryk Wenziak. It’s absolutely free, so download, print, fold, and enjoy (instructions HERE)! Pass it on!
See: DAY+DANCING
ATTICUS REVIEW is running the second and final installment of the film series Swoon and I did for my Gold Wake Press chapbook, EXIT STRATEGIES. My thanks to them, Swoon, Gold Wake Press, and all who have followed and enjoyed this project.
“Projects like this one are the reason we knew we wanted to feature ‘Mixed Media’ in our online journal. Simply amazing.” —Atticus Review
“‘Exit Strategies’ a videopoetry chapbook by Swoon and David Tomaloff, is a unique, impressive example of what can happen when creative minds get together.” —Atticus Books
EXIT STRATEGIES {VI}: SUM
The sixth and final installment of the videopoem series based on my Gold Wake Press chapbook EXIT STRATEGIES is awaiting your eager eyes and ear holes. Thanks to Swoon for providing these bodies with such finely woven clothing.
EXIT STRATEGIES {V}: ATTIC
Part V of Swoon’s videopoem series based on my Gold Wake Press chapbook, EXIT STRATEGIES, wants to spend time with you because you are special, and I just want to read you scary stories all night long.
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