LIONTAMER'S BLUES

“Ryan W. Bradley and David Tomaloff’s You Are Jaguar, the first title from Artistically Declined Press’s Twin Antlers imprint, is such a work, a disarming, intensely self-aware tangle of dueling verse that is not only a testament to the convergence of two distinct, exceptionally talented poetic voices, but also to the process itself, a primal hymn where the need for inclusion is extolled as the greatest of virtues. Truly sanguineous indeed.” —From Chris Vola’s review of YOU ARE JAGUAR at Outside Writers

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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!