Monday, March 10th, 2008...11:56 am
todd moore | love & death & teeth in the blood


Dear Todd, thank you very much for sending me your latest work. I hope, a lot of people will send you a lot of orders. Monsieur K.
THE DARK HEART OF AMERICA by Tony Moffeit
LOVE & DEATH & TEETH IN THE BLOOD. Todd Moore. Pitchfork Poetry Press, 2007. PO Box 146399, Chicago, IL 60614. $9.00.
For the past several months I have been immersed in a manuscript of Todd Moore’s revolutionary novel, “Dreaming of Billy the Kid,” a lyrical, sprawling mural that captures the heart of Outlaw America. His own “Guernica” in a way. Haunted and hypnotized by it, and its wave of power, I receive Todd Moore’s new chapbook, “love & death & teeth in the blood.” What a beautiful contrast! Just so that we know that Todd Moore’s classic style is still intense with the life force as he deals with death and teeth in the blood! With a blood-red cover of a gun and a rose! Holding this book is like holding an outlaw artifact:
sleeping w/rats
Todd Moore is one of the world’s greatest storytellers. And the variety and multiple subjects of his stories are full of old myths, new myths, and a whole new angle of looking at things:
right
Todd Moore’s poems work like little movies, little pockets of celluloid, little windows into another side of America, as Moore calls it in a recent essay, “the dark heart of America.” Here you find Billy the Kid, Sam Peckinpah, John Dillinger, and yes, the Clifton Cafe:
the best place
This volume works on many levels. It is classic Todd Moore at his best. Beautifully edited, it has the feel of a mini-novel or a series of short stories. It is something you can pull out of your coat pocket, like a gun or an outlaw artifact. Tony Moffeit
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