Open Spirit
by Travis Catsull
$5.00
The Temple Inc.
Open Spirit
"This is powerful imagery from a quicksilvered polychromatic power house that can generate electrified influences as words wield even more inspiration. Lagging imagination soars and the doors of mind swing open to unthought of before images. Some of these words are so unique they should be carved upon mahogany mastheads."
Joyce Metzger, CerBerUs and ZZZ Zyne
"He does what I could never do with language. He collects and collages seemingly random images. He is fearless in this. Some of this, I suspect, he brings with him (to the calling of poetry) as a gift. His sentences are riveting, and funny, very funny. And that makes them serious."
Jim Bodeen, Blue Begonia Press
"Take the time to study the intricate layers of Travis Catsull's poetry. You'll find a host of targeted symbols and imagery, blended together in a mix that is at once powerful and beautiful. Though abstract, his poems always end with a punch, leaving you with a new impression of their writer and his form."
Jonathan Penton, Unlikely Stories
"Catsull's new collection is to enter a world lit with glittering images cut with knife sharp phrases. Single phrases contain chains of images and metaphor that click one after another like rosary beads or boxes folding and unfolding; each line becomes a poem in itself."
Kelly Jean White MD
"So many of these poems are so vivid, so colored (and off-colored,) they're like ekphrasis of non-existent masterworks."
Jen Hawkins, Arsenic Lobster
"I have never encountered anything like Catsull's poetry. He reminds me of no poet I have studied or read, and it is apparent that he is forging either a new style of poetry or a new voice ."
Dave Anderson, Ibbetson Street Press
"If you mixed half a house of Andre Breton's surrealism with another half of Bukowski's street cred, the results might approximate a shack and a half of Travis Catsull. In other words Catsull spans the gamut from totally literal to utterly fantastic."
Charles Potts, The Temple School of Poetry
"Oftentimes, what he renders is genius. Catsull's images are disturbing, more than a little tragic, and utterly original."