todd moore
Category: poetry books| January 31st, 2007
Todd Moore | Photo: Pete Jonsson
Todd Moore is a poet in the shockism style. He says, “For your information gansta poetry in this country isn’t Bukowski’s invention, it’s mine. I’ve been making this kind of stuff since 1970 give or take. And, it has nothing to do with Bukowski’s style or subject matter. Bukowski was the pornagrapher of pussy and a damned good one at that. I’m the pornographer of violence.”
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DILLINGER: The Name is Dillinger
The Name is Dillinger
Volume 1 of 13
by Todd Moore
First Edition, 1,163 Copies. 950 Trade, 50 Signed and Numbered by Author. 100 Review, 50 Author/Publisher, 13 Out of Series.
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Download listen to Todd Moore | Dillinger backed away | Zerx Volume No. 14
DILLINGER:Billie F
Billie F
Volume 3 of 21
by Todd Moore
First Edition 1987, 1,163 Copies. 950 Trade, 50 Signed and Numbered by Author. 100 Review, 50 Author/Publisher, 13 Out of Series
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Dillinger : Dillinger’s Faces
Dillinger’s Faces
Volume 2 of 13
by Todd Moore
First Edition, 1,163 Copies, 950 Trade, 50 Signed and Numbered by Author. 100 Review, 50 Author/Publisher, 13 Out of Series.
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Download listen to Todd Moore | the last bar | Zerx Volume No. 13
DILLINGER
Todd Moore & J.A. Deane
Zerx #039 - double-CD
6 years in the making this blows any other “spoken word” CD out of the water. With a .44 magnum. ( I usually run for cover whenever someone uses that term “spoken word” - leave that one for the wussies.) Todd illuminates the abandoned soul of John Dillinger. Dino breaks open the Gates of Hell. Not for the squeamish. When an hour of Dillinger was broadcast over the radio one Sunday afternoon back in 1997, KUNM was inundated by calls from frightened listeners, huge flocks of crows blackened the skies over Albuquerque, and the churches had record attendances for that evening’s observances. Mark Weber
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tell the corpse a story
dillinger stuck
his trig
ger finger
thru the
bullet
hole in
the ford’s
front door
& sd a
nother
inch or
so & i’d
be pissing
thru my
guts yeah
makely sd
laughing
that is
if you
hand any
guts left
copyright 2008 by todd moore “dillinger dreamt” originally appeared in Artcrimes 2006.
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Download listen to Todd Moore | Lady on the radio | Zerx Volume No. 5
relentless
as a hum
the noise
going in
side baby
face’s head
while
watching
dillinger
count the
money
hammer
spur chec
kered grip
the frac
tured de
tails slic
ing his
eyes…
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Download listen to Todd Moore | I used to | Zerx Volume No. 7
RELENTLESS
by Todd Moore, 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico | a review by Tony Moffeit
Todd Moore continually redefines the outlaw spirit in American poetry. In his one-poem volume, “relentless,” he does it again. In one work, “relentless,” he is the poetic embodiment of Jimi Hendrix’s performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, a performance in which the rock musician capped an enormous performance by burning his guitar on stage in a sacrificial act, then smashed the burning guitar to bits on the floor of the stage.
Todd Moore’s one-poem chapbook is as relentless as Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, doing a backward somersault while playing his guitar, then setting his guitar on fire. Instead of a guitar, Moore uses the machine gun of language. Instead of a rock n roll stage, it is the landscape of the getaway car. Instead of playing the guitar with his teeth, the main character, Baby Face Nelson, is knocking demon flies off his face. But the intensity is the same: the getaway car cutting through the blackness of the night, the guitar going up in flames.
Todd Moore is the Jimi Hendrix of poetry. Todd Moore is the Sam Peckinpah of poetry. Todd Moore is the John Dillinger of poetry. Through the use of violence and death, Moore transcends violence and death. It is only through the brutality of the intensity of art that man has a chance. The only answer to war, the only answer to crime, the only answer to external violence is the internal power of art: matching the intensity of the external violence with the intensity of the internal violence. And, it is not through politics that the answer lies, it is through poetry. Nothing is more dangerous than poetry, because it stands alone. Nothing is more dangerous than poetry, because the outlaw stands alone. Nothing is more dangerous than poetry, because the man standing alone with the weapon of his art is indefatigable. Nietzsche knew this. Artaud knew this. Garcia Lorca knew this.
Todd Moore delivers this message with one word: relentless. Todd Moore delivers this message with one poem: “relentless.” Todd Moore delivers this message with one chapbook: “relentless.”
Shotgun Weather
by Todd Moore & Dennis Gulling
Cover: Junior Walker
Copyright 2007 by Todd Moore & Dennis Gulling. St. Vitus Press/Crawlspace Press
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love & death & teeth in the blood
by Todd Moore 2007
Cover art: Josh Howard
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Blood on Blood
Todd Moore & Gary Goude
Front & back cover design and layout: Theron Moore for St. Vitus Press 2006
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Download listen to Todd Moore | blind cherry | Zerx Volume No. 27
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S.A. Griffin | Photo: Mark Savage | Car: '59 Cadillac Sedan deVille DANCING IN THE FIRE WITH S. A. GRIFFIN by Todd Moore I remember sitting up half the night talking to S.A. Griffin in my book littered office about everything from poetry to crime to movies to getting drunk. I remember listening to S. A. read The Apes Of Wrath at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe. I remember the crazy outlaw talk talk talk in John Macker’s converted roadhouse home out in Bernal and the walk out into the wilderness beyond his house where he had...