“These poems aptly show the poet's preference for spontaneous language and diversity of ideas.”
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“These poems are full of amazing and deep imagination. It is evident that in all these poems there is present a rich style and a variety of melodies to attract the readers. The poems are endowed with intense imagination, dreamy grace and subtle suggestion. All these poems become quite charming due to 'maturity, manifested in technique, of feeling in relation to thought'.”
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“We are quite attracted by all these poems with their highly intense imaginative power and a never ending undercurrent of true and sincere feelings.”
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“TSOMP is The Steam Of My Piss and is Camillus John’s second poembook kebab-full of modern life’s ups, downs and roundabouts with an all-singing-all-dancing cherry on top that looks a lot like Christmas.”
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“It’s not often that a working-class writer gets poetry published by such a prestigious and chimerical bookhouse as Ballyer Press. So while stocks last get your roller-skates and matching elbow-pads on and feed your mind, body and soul on such poems as…”
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“Does life change forever when your Da starts hugging you in other people’s dreams? Yes, he’s back with his fifth book. In this instance, Kebab poembaggery of the highest order. A design for spice and contemplation. How far down Camillus John’s headbanger’s hole do you really want to go?”
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Bald Trickster Press, 2022.
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“The restless forms of Tim Kahl's The Century of Travel explore mortality and journeying--over land and through time--in a haunting fashion.”
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“The fascinating poems of Tim Kahl's Omnishambles remind me of the surrealist belief that the universe always gives us exactly what we need. These gifts can come while browsing in a Paris flea market, strolling through a mysterious arcade, or by leaving the hotel room door open to chance, as Breton does in Nadja. In this case the generous universe that supplies the poet is The Sacramento Bee. As he moves through its pages, plumbing the universal unconscious for gifts that coalesce as metaphor and song, Tim Kahl amazes us again and again.” —Lawrence R. Smith, editor of Caliban
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CW Books, 2009.
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“In the Cage of Lit Glass, Charles Kell presents an unreal world and yet, these confines are not an imaginary. The cages are also not stable . . . We learn that if you wish to read a poem, you may as well carve the lines on your wrist. By creating such poems, the reader is separated from their comfort zone. And this is a marvelous feat. After all, awareness is powerful poetic.”
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“These poems, shadowed by Melville and Kafka, are also a history of one poet’s encounters with the inscrutable relentlessness of fate and the inevitable privacy of suffering.” - Susan Stewart
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One of the winners of SurVision Book’s James Tate Chapbook Prize, 2019.
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The Best Secret is a micro-chapbook of erasure poems about a love affair. Using Stephen King’s novella The Colorado Kid as its source text, the poems in this collection follow a couple over the course of a year as the seasons change from winter to spring and spring to summer. The poems track the couple from their first meeting, through the head-over heels honeymoon stage, and to the inevitable end of the relationship.
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“In New and Permanent, Klein bravely writes of motherhood and grief—chronic pain, negative pregnancy tests, and pill bottles piling up, the relentless purgatory of strangers offering unsolicited medical advice. Through all, Klein carries herself with a smirk: ‘By no means should the poem simply end / by refusing to change its bra / and taking the whole sleeve of Oreos to bed / but it will anyway.’ In this mournful display of one woman trying to live in her body against a cold and unaccepting world, Klein understands that a poem, just like life, should ‘also include one devastating stanza about a bower of white roses.'” —Rae Hoffman Jager, author of American Bitch
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Paper View Books, 2023.
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"At turns serious, playful, and evocative, Kleinberg combines a distinctive voice with a signature style. Poetically, the accident of the enjambed texts appeals to the reader with a kind of inevitable sense. Visually, the torn paper is familiar, tactile and inviting, punctuated by shifting fonts and bursts of color. Reading Kleinberg is an entirely new experience." —Sarah J. Sloat
The protagonist of J.I. Kleinberg's collection, The Word for Standing Alone in a Field, is unlikely: a scarecrow. But, as Kleinberg says in the opening poem, his work is “not crows or corn but sorrows.” This is no cartoon scarecrow, but a familiar, an empath, loved, mostly at a distance, by a speaker we see only in brief glances. A speaker, we suspect, who may feel safer in the presence of this “placeholder” than among the people and crows who show little sympathy for either. “We practice a kind of ventriloquy,” Kleinberg says in the poem “I have been writing about a scarecrow.”
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“With unpretentious clarity, guts and a bit of soul, Breakable Things has solidified Loren Kleinman as my favorite new poet.” - Kola Boof, The Sexy Part of the Bible
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“In this beautiful collection, Loren Kleinman writes about longing and loving, touch and loss, truth, absence, and ultimately, the soul. The poems are moving, the sentiment naked, and the language irresistible. I'm grateful to have been invited to into this writer's mind and heart and world.” - Beverly Donofrio, author Riding in Cars with Boys
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