Toothsome

Each of Toothsomes evocative poems compels us to read more. Whether couched in the history of Antinous or a personal legend of a wolf-stalker these vibrant allusive and finely hewn verses take us inside the speakers secret doors to fens and moors to discover truths locked inside the moon/and the skys bright organs. Here you will find yourself in a retirement home for the gods or watching a child indiscriminately amputate the limbs of a chocolate bunny. Art Zilleruelos Toothsome is a message in a bottle. The only thing that surpasses the appeal of setting a message adrift on the sea is being the reader on the opposite shore. -Eileen Cleary Carve Magazine In Toothsome Art Zilleruelos new and stunning collection prophetic voices and circumstances provide in starkly human terms a wisdom and sorrow rooted in the landscapes of Bloomsburg Ashland and the Pennsylvania coal country surrounding Glen Burn Colliery. The haunting lyricism in this collection rises from deep underground to erupt in a controlled rage against our political economic and personal tragedies and weaknesses. These are deeply felt wide-awake poems worthy of your attention.- Rick Mulkey author of Ravenous: New & Selected Poems (Serving House Press 2014) Director of the Creative Writing Program at Converse College.Exquisitely detailed and privately apocalyptic every one of these pieces. Zilleruelo hunts through the cellular tangles of our word world to gut and skin and repurpose the human voice reanimating it as more feral more hopeful releasing it then into fresh intersections of land love faith and forgiveness--Toothsome grants the sort of ineffable reconciliation that only the most masterful poetry can supply.--Nate Liederba