Three Mouths

No single note can contain or describe this work, nor is there a quiet sameness which will lull one beyond question. Instead there is a composed concentration in the center of calamitous movement-movement which embodies inquiry, which listens as a means of locomotion, transferring setting to sound, venturing out along many circumstances. Laynie Browne, from the introduction

Tod Thilleman began to attract attention with his sequence collection Wave-Run and has continued to mine secrets and depths inherent in language, but often ignored. The magic of words-that they have lives of their own beyond their obvious power to communicate information .... Between continues that process, informed by his conductus, the Daemon. It is a great privilege to have been allowed to follow the quest. Theodore Enslin

Zukofsky tells us that those without greek can still pick up the sound of the sea-
and know that it is the sea-from hearing Homer's language. Those who sound the language of Tod Thilleman's Wave-Run may at first feel submerged in a foreign language only to arrive at a later-and deeper, more alive-realization of English and of a different sea. "Cupped, cupped coiling wave contains/somewhere line's form's language." The same is true vice versa. John Taggart