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The Tongue ReviewReading "The Tongue" is like enjoying a passionate kiss from someone you love: you don't ever want it to end, you remember it with longing, and you can't wait to experience it again and again.
Every poem can be enjoyed both from the first reading, but it still has fresh impact every time you read it, and enough meat to merit multiple readings. Tom's poems are well crafted without feeling labored, funny without going for cheap laughs, insightful without preaching, playful without being too silly. They are the sort of poems that everyone can read and enjoy, because they were written to be read and enjoyed by everyone. For example, who could resist a poems like "How to Make Orange Juice" which starts with the lines "First you have to make the oranges./To do that, you must become/an orange tree . . .", or "Triskaidekaphobia" a poem about the fear of the number 13 which is aptly on page 13, or "My First Car" in which each line is contradicted by something in the next line, e,g. "My girlfriend never kissed me because cigarettes made my breath stink--'like sucking an exhaust pipe,' she said/She wasn't really my girlfriend. She was just using me for rides in my convertible speedster./My car was a VW Beetle. It could barely do 50, plus it was starting to stink, like my breath from the constant smoking./I never took up smoking . . .", or from "the Insomniac Dreams: III. Midnight" "Two loud stars keep me awake tonight./They're so far apart! I say to the woman I love./Do you think they're shouting to or at each other?/But she is dreaming her way/into a rounder world . . .", or "Uninhibited, Baby" "I want to be uninhibited like my baby boy/who does not fuss about manners/but drools on the bedsheets, shouts out/in church, and does not say, Hallelujah/. . .who will not take his own moral inventory or even the first step,/will not toe a party line or visualize world peace,/but cries and craps and tries to crawl . . ." And those poems aren't even necessarily the best poems in the book, each poem really deserves to be in the book. Tom can take you into the world of Trappist monks who make cheese, erasers that live at the zoo and can erase anything, into the head of Travis Bickle, or have you contemplating your lawn like you never have before. I simply love this book!
In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you that I am the author's wife. However, I would never write a glowing review just because of that fact. I have known about Tom's poems almost as long as I have known Tom himself, and I am utterly in love with both the man and the poetry. (Funny but true story, before I dated Tom, a mutual friend tried to woo me by reading to me from one of Tom's earliest chapbooks more than ten years ago, but I fell for the poems and not for the friend, and Tom's poetry has just kept getting better!)
Read the Tongue and I am sure that you will agree that it is a treat that should not be missed. And if you like the Tongue, look for Tom's next book coming out this August, "Still, There's a Glimmer" and for his award winning chapbook "My Life as Minor Character."The Tongue OverviewA collection of poems.

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