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“John Toone is in the midst of perfecting the prairie roar, the long poem of multiple perspectives and precise insights. There are echoes of Cooley, Hunter, and Kroetsch in these pages. From Out of Nowhere is a relentless and exhilarating text.”

- Jon Paul Fiorentino, stripmalling

“From Out of Nowhere is poetry written against paperwork and the banal language of bureaucracy and control. John Toone’s phrases slip out of the rut of conventional meaning through surprising turns. This book brooks no lazy readers: instead, it fights for a fresh engagement with words and the ideas they carry.”

- Alison Calder, Wolf Tree

“The cowboy poems as told by Sixgun Quixote is like an audio track on paper, reads like music, antic and dark, wholly evocative of Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic masterpiece, The Road, the boys lull you into the dusty, outlaw world of gunslinger and the shoot the shit out of you when they drag you back home. Again with the themes of apocalypse, death and the isolation of the lonely, nasty hero, words and pictures move sensuously, texturally in unison with the absence of hope. This time it’s not fear as beauty, but hopelessness as nostalgia. Sweet.”

- Susie Moloney, The Dwelling

“Sixgun Quixote is a strange and unusual publication - a dream of a western cowboy – running amok in the vivid imagination and mind of a big city homeless man”

- Ben T. Traywick
Author and Official Town Historian of Tombstone, AZ

Post date: 2009-11-03 05:16:34 UTC

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