"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 |
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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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 |
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