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Sleep
The identity-theft of Tomaloff's masterfully mood-altering language renders a dozen or more modifications to the person looking back at you in the mirror. Is it you? Is it me? Each filmic sentence carries you, scene-for-scene, through the amnesia but it'll be up to you to figure out what kind of person you are.
--Michael J Seidlinger, author of My Pet Serial Killer
David Tomaloff is a punk poet alchemist who knows that while sleep may be the cousin of death, it's all going to be okay, because there will always be words, and as long as there are words, there is life.
--Ben Tanzer, author of My Father's House
--Michael J Seidlinger, author of My Pet Serial Killer
David Tomaloff is a punk poet alchemist who knows that while sleep may be the cousin of death, it's all going to be okay, because there will always be words, and as long as there are words, there is life.
--Ben Tanzer, author of My Father's House
Chapbook
First published May 1, 2014
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About the author
David Tomaloff
16 books12 followers+David Tomaloff is a very important something. His written and visual works have appeared in several chapbooks, anthologies, and in fine publications such as Connotation Press, Sundog Lit, Lost in Thought, A-Minor, and HTML Giant. He is co-author of the collaborative poetry collection YOU ARE JAGUAR, with Ryan W. Bradley (Artistically Declined Press), and he is working on another collaborative effort, this time with J. Scott Bugher, titled LEDGER & STRING. His latest chapbook, SLEEP, is forthcoming from Plain Wrap Press.
+As a lifelong musician and composer, David Tomaloff has participated in recording, production, and performance aspects of many projects including his own as a singer-songwriter as well as the entity known as The Dammitheads. His musical works have been featured in various television programs, documentaries, and independent films, including ABC’s Invasion, Oxygen’s Good Girls Don’t, MTV’s Real World Road Rules Challenge, a German zombie film titled Red Harvest, a table tennis documentary titled Niche Table Tennis (produced by Daft Films), and a video series by BMX Magazine.
+His silence can be bought. Reasonable offers accepted.
+As a lifelong musician and composer, David Tomaloff has participated in recording, production, and performance aspects of many projects including his own as a singer-songwriter as well as the entity known as The Dammitheads. His musical works have been featured in various television programs, documentaries, and independent films, including ABC’s Invasion, Oxygen’s Good Girls Don’t, MTV’s Real World Road Rules Challenge, a German zombie film titled Red Harvest, a table tennis documentary titled Niche Table Tennis (produced by Daft Films), and a video series by BMX Magazine.
+His silence can be bought. Reasonable offers accepted.
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June 22, 2014
David Tomaloff is powered by light bulbs that are energy providers, but make sure to wear sunblock and protect all of your perishables! He is sure to become extinct in the southern hemispheres and Greenland if you don't get on it and buy every copy of every collection he has ever written! Tomaloff is an inspiration that never sleeps! Collect his work like someone might collect money! Pocket it and be thankful! Here is a quote from this harvest moon of pure brilliance that rises again and again:
"YOU WAKE TO FIND THAT YOUR
MOUTH IS A HOLE INSIDE A
LARGER HOLE in the body of a
thing that was planned & then
never built. Your hands are the
size of small pets, & there is snow.
You: a) listen as your ghosts tell
living people stories to the dead,
or b) hold your hands out over the
nearest body of water & organize
your cells into clumps of festively
decorative ropes of light."
"YOU WAKE TO FIND THAT YOUR
MOUTH IS A HOLE INSIDE A
LARGER HOLE in the body of a
thing that was planned & then
never built. Your hands are the
size of small pets, & there is snow.
You: a) listen as your ghosts tell
living people stories to the dead,
or b) hold your hands out over the
nearest body of water & organize
your cells into clumps of festively
decorative ropes of light."
June 21, 2014
Oddly enough, I quite enjoyed this chapbook.
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