Daylight to Dirty Work by Tod Thilleman
Reading from two book-length poems
Root-Cellar to Riverine
Egghead to Underhoof

     produced by Lithic Scatter


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It's a quirky little book – a single long poem in something like 60 12-line, very small-format pages.
Thilleman has a music all his own, sometimes lyrical, sometimes dissonant; pretty consistently
surprising. I'll admit "root-cellar" always sets me thinking of WCW's "cat" poem – you know, the
one with the jam-closet & so forth. But Root-Cellar is very un-Williamsesque: more an assertion –
nay, a demonstration – that ruminative, considerative poetry is still possible. You've got to admire
Thilleman's ability to leap from the jars in the cellar to the meaning of life; and it doesn't at all
hurt that the poem to my ear's shot thru with echoes of Briggflatts. 
                       Mark Scroggins, Culture Industry






Tod Thilleman
Tod Thilleman moved to New York from the Mid-Western State of Wisconsin in the early 80s.

He is the author of numerous poetry collections and the novel Gowanus Canal, Hans Knudsen.

From 1991-1999 he was an editor at Poetry New York: a journal of poetry & translation.