i write is strictly fuck you no cap ital letters no punc tuation the words jammed together or all smashed up like bro ken glass crushed pop cans & used condoms the ameri can sen tence is either a stutter or a scream & i’m waiting to watch it explode
Todd Moore has revolutionized poetry with a style that is all his own: the stripped down line that leaves an electrical impulse of lyrical violence; the outlaw persona of one who leaves blood on the page, a visceral experience of life, death, and rebirth; and his channeling of the essence of John Dillinger, including myths, symbols, and archetypes. - Tony Moffeit
The poems from Todd Moore's DEAD RECKONING do not strike me so much as words written down, but rather as primal relics unearthed from an archaeological dig. They go much deeper than bone, they speak to my blood." - Wolfgang Carstens
Todd Moore's poems kick you in the teeth and leave you curled up and bleeding on the wrong side of the road. Todd Moore is the Big Daddy of poems that deal with muscle and grit and bone. The reason no one else writes like Todd Moore is because no one else can. These poems give it to you straight, no chaser. – John Yamrus
Todd Moore’s writing works at the nerve endings like a beast not yet named. DEAD RECKONING exposes a corrupt and fetishistic America that habitually reinvents its own endgame. Each poem is a scattergun butt to the head; a perfectly worded organism that pulsates with the rhythms of life but also reveals the darkened mayhem of the soul: whorehouse shoot-outs, doomed gangsters, toxic women who pay more than lip service to those who haunt the killer outskirts of town. His short lines are the palpitations of the street. Todd is a poet’s poet, raw, highly stylized, richly American, violently lyrical. He’s a master of the form. – John Macker
DEAD RECKONING is coming soon from epic rites press.
