TOAD'S SANCTUARY by Tamas Panitz
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978-1-942723-08-0
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published April 2021
perfect bound trade paperback
9 x 6 inches, 69 pages
ISBN 978-1-942723-08-0
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Toad’s Sanctuary is a book-length work composed of Tamas Panitz’s recent poetry, closet speeches, advertisements, manifestos, and ceremonies. These coil and uncoil as they claim the ground of an associative activity within the present. The tongue surprises me again / in the prism of the sentence, Panitz writes in the poem “ Three Tarot Cards.” Readers will likewise encounter many surprises spoken into life within his curious texts, which play across genres and eras with startling fluency, and are never quite what they seem.
Praise for Toad's Sanctuary
“Tamas Panitz’s words sneak their way into our world with the multiplicative association of hyperlinks. His sentences strike our brains like that rubber hammer the doctor used to check our knee reflexes when we were kids. His paragraphs tickle the armpits we didn’t realize our imaginations had. I could risk drawing comparisons, but everything comes up short: Panitz stands alone in the ingenuity of his commitment to short-circuiting the emotional wiring we tend to run between words and things, buzzing with a perfect irreverence.”
— Kit Schluter, author of Pierrot’s Fingernails (Canarium Books)
“From deep in the Catskill mountains, Tamas Panitz writes poems that seduce and beckon specter lovers to stay awhile. To lay down and let his language ravish the tongue for awhile, turning with playful nibbles of delight. From deep in the Catskill mountains, Tamas Panitz writes poems that honor his tangential place on earth, as if he is himself the incarnation of Thomas Cole, the great Hudson Valley painter, but in this lifetime, is not so descriptive of nature itself but rather the portals that it opens between worlds. From deep in the Catskill mountains, Tamas Panitz writes in homage to the great logos-magician Gerrit Lansing, and his poems reach out to the dead to draw forth their stories, and their prophesies. This is a book that holds a complex oracle of address, and it reveals Tamas Panitz as a poet who honors the words that come through the portal of his mind and body, as tradition and vocation entwined. One has the sense that he has breathed these poems into words to be shared between the living and the dead: and it is with both delightful play and witty humor that he passes down their wisdom.”
— Kristin Prevallet, author of Everywhere Here and in Brooklyn (Belladonna Series)
“I don’t even know where to begin with you, Tamas Panitz! One minute you’re a poet of your peculiar polis, like an Olson in a hemlock, the next you’re a renaissance pamphleteer pasting decrees on unlikely walls, next some alchemical cleric shaking up retorts to see if they explode. Not a formalist so much as one on ever-vigilant alert for the premise from which you can form a poem. It all makes Toad’s Sanctuary a cool refuge in the hot mess of contemporary American poetry.”
—Garrett Caples, author of Lovers of Today ( Wave Books)
Praise for Toad's Sanctuary
“Tamas Panitz’s words sneak their way into our world with the multiplicative association of hyperlinks. His sentences strike our brains like that rubber hammer the doctor used to check our knee reflexes when we were kids. His paragraphs tickle the armpits we didn’t realize our imaginations had. I could risk drawing comparisons, but everything comes up short: Panitz stands alone in the ingenuity of his commitment to short-circuiting the emotional wiring we tend to run between words and things, buzzing with a perfect irreverence.”
— Kit Schluter, author of Pierrot’s Fingernails (Canarium Books)
“From deep in the Catskill mountains, Tamas Panitz writes poems that seduce and beckon specter lovers to stay awhile. To lay down and let his language ravish the tongue for awhile, turning with playful nibbles of delight. From deep in the Catskill mountains, Tamas Panitz writes poems that honor his tangential place on earth, as if he is himself the incarnation of Thomas Cole, the great Hudson Valley painter, but in this lifetime, is not so descriptive of nature itself but rather the portals that it opens between worlds. From deep in the Catskill mountains, Tamas Panitz writes in homage to the great logos-magician Gerrit Lansing, and his poems reach out to the dead to draw forth their stories, and their prophesies. This is a book that holds a complex oracle of address, and it reveals Tamas Panitz as a poet who honors the words that come through the portal of his mind and body, as tradition and vocation entwined. One has the sense that he has breathed these poems into words to be shared between the living and the dead: and it is with both delightful play and witty humor that he passes down their wisdom.”
— Kristin Prevallet, author of Everywhere Here and in Brooklyn (Belladonna Series)
“I don’t even know where to begin with you, Tamas Panitz! One minute you’re a poet of your peculiar polis, like an Olson in a hemlock, the next you’re a renaissance pamphleteer pasting decrees on unlikely walls, next some alchemical cleric shaking up retorts to see if they explode. Not a formalist so much as one on ever-vigilant alert for the premise from which you can form a poem. It all makes Toad’s Sanctuary a cool refuge in the hot mess of contemporary American poetry.”
—Garrett Caples, author of Lovers of Today ( Wave Books)
OH! What a STRANGE & MARVELOUS brand new book of poems by Tamas Panitz! An occult poetry FEAST, wishing "the Masons would just / turn off the Enlightenment"
— CAConrad (@CAConrad88) April 11, 2021
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