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"Todd Cirillo is the best American poet hammering out clean, honest lines. His newest book KISSES FROM A STRAIGHT RAZOR represents poetry without smoke and mirrors, stripped down to its barest essentials—where everyday, ordinary language is transformed into high art. This book is a line drawn in the sand, a declaration of war, a benchmark of where modern poetry stands. Forget Charles Bukowski—have you read poetry by Todd Cirillo?"
—Wolfgang Carstens, Epic Rites Press, 2020 |
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Three For The Road brings together the powerhouse poets of Wolfgang Carstens, Todd Cirillo and Rob Plath for this limited edition book. Three distinct styles from tough to tender fill this book with humor, desolation, heartbreak and happiness. The poetry within is unmatched in modern poetry. --Epic Rites Press, 2018
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Todd Cirillo's book Burning the Evidence is filled with snapshot observations from his Polaroid eye for detail, thieves' ear for dialogue, and optimistic attempts at love and affection in all situations. Cirillo accomplishes a rare feat; he makes poetry relatable and accessible to every person. In these poems, he lays his heart bare on the bar, sometimes stupidly, other times sacrificially, but always sincerely. Some poems are punches to the gut, others are chocolates on the pillow or the last glimpse of red taillights fading away. Despite the disasters in life and love, Cirillo finds beauty "forever shining down on the whole filthy set up" and after reading this book, you will too. --Epic Rites Press, 2017 |
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Todd Cirillo's poems in Sucker's Paradise come hurling at you through the window, with no way to sidestep the pain or pleasure of them. They are full of busted hopes and kisses to the cheek, humor and hangovers, flowers at midnight, and hearts that take the beating. It is a collection of Cirillo's life itself--a full-bore run to find the tender moments that make us believe that paradise has been found. Sucker's Paradise holds all that we desire--the love, the belonging, the possibilities--even if we, too, eventually discover that "everything looks perfect from far away." So, call Cirillo a sucker or a saint, but he rolls with life's hard truths and turns them into poetic bonfires that we find ourselves gathering around, cold beer in hand, hearts ready for anything. --Six Ft. Swells Press, 2012 |
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Roxy is After Hours Poetry; when the lights go down and the memory of last call has faded into the exhaled smoke of a bummed cigarette – Roxy comes to life. The poems are rooted in the street, caress (no slam) the frailties of the human relationship, lean toward the erotic and show that honest poetry, feelings and emotions, cannot be confined by political correctness. In fact, Roxy is not a politically correct collection. Cirillo, Gainer and Staple don’t tell those gentle lies. --R.L. Crow Publications, 2003 "...comes along three poets who write from their perspective of life. Staple reminds us how "few the nights content of heart/to sit with a friend/in one candle's light", Gainer writes that, "you can beat the fight out of someone/but to kill the will/was to shatter the angels" and Cirillo, in the poet Rumi's expansive way says, "I'm getting that big-feeling again"...You don't have to be a poet to love these poems. You just have to have a heart beating behind your ribcage." --Ann Menebroker, poet |
The above titles have been published by the following presses, please support them, they are the good ones: Epic Rites Press, Six Ft. Swells Press, Rattlesnake Press, Lummox Press, Totem Press
