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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.
About the author
Tamas Panitz is the author of several poetry books, includingThe Country Passing By (Model City 2022), Toad's Sanctuary(Ornithopter Press: 2021), andThe House of the Devil(Lunar Chandelier Collective: 2020). Other books include Conversazione, interviews with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Autonomedia: 2022), and The Selected Poems of Charles Tomás; trans. w/Carlos Lara (Schism: 2022). He now edits the journal NEW. He was tyrant over the online journalBlazing Stadium. Tamas Panitz is also a painter, whose paintings and stray poems can be found on instagram, @tamaspanitz.
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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 Ta
