Sirens is here is her is red white blue and black, nature springing. Sirens of sound poetry on one page slight, the next a garden of cusping thought. Toni Roxanne’s language is her here moon rays smiling, crying, knowing, feeling the day come with its fantastic promise. Sirens is here to love in action, her a gift, a charm, a poet. Thank you Toni.
Thurston Moore
Film by Jonas Leuenberger
Music and Sound by Max Davies
SIRENS out now on Gesture Press and Amazon Books
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This is extraordinary! Reading it out loud with my boyfriend, he said he loves surrealism, but I think this book is a form of magic revealed. Toni Oswald's poems are so unique and brilliant, they deserve a cult following! I will join that cult, and do whatever the poems tell me to do!
--CAConrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death
Film by Jonas leuenberger
Music by Max Davies
SIRENS out now on Gesture Press and Amazon Books
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As she falls and as she flies, Her speaks to us in riddled whispers. “You have everything you need,” Her reassures us. But are we being fooled into an old recipe, oscillating between violence and love? Toni Oswald has created a precise poetic world, drawing us into a painful reality all-too-familiar. “Things are much stranger then we have imagined.” Indeed. By way of love, she guides us through her dangerous and intricate landscape. Buckle up, dear reader. Prepare to fly.
HR Hegnauer - author of Sir
Film by Jonas Leuenberger
Music by Max Davies
SIRENS out now on Gesture Press and Amazon
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Sirens is the lyrical story of Her which means it is the story of you and I, just as it’s also our story too, and a story that has yet to be, a story that is now, and a story from before (which is to say it is spun from the fabric of myth). If David Lynch died and reincarnated into the body of a little girl with wings who hatched from an egg painted by Leonora Carrington’s ghost, Sirens would be the fairy tale this version of Lynch would then write. Toni Oswald has paid homage to the Dadaists and the Surrealists equally in this creation of story and sound; this hybrid narrative about a hybrid character that asks the reader to engage in this fever dream about being born and giving birth, about dying and being resurrected. Sirens then shape-shifts into a recipe for baking blue pies before reshaping itself into a ritual and feminist manifesto before blooming into a wound that is stitched together using embroidery to draw a palimpsest of the sacred pussy upon the page. The synesthesia in Oswald’s language borders on mysticism as the reader witnesses light become smitten with the velvet darkness of the void, to then watch the void thrust itself into the mercurial surface of a mirror where shadows play in the threshold between reflection and the corporeal. Sirens is an interactive narrative that invites us in so we can explore all the serpentine trajectories of the Self. I love this poetic narrative so much I’m tempted for my next tattoo to read: “Let’s be friends even when there is no us” because that is exactly how I feel about the book from which this line was excerpted and the author who composed it.
—Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Fig
Film by Jonas Leuenberger
Music by Max Davies
Sirens out Now on Gesture Press and Amazon
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In Sirens we encounter the multi-bodied, simultaneous emergent, ever-emerging, Her. Her(e) mystical hybridity conjuncts with real life emergencies offering dazzling, pained views of the charnel grounds where we might die a thousand female deaths and finally and also: resurrect. Toni Oswald’s writing teaches us how to endure – and ultimately – celebrate the most difficult verbs.
Selah Saterstrom,
author of Ideal Suggestions and Slab
Film by Jonas Leuenberger
Music by Max Davies
Available on Gesture Press and Amazon:
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