Poems from the Toaster
Poems from the Toaster
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Poems from the Toaster brings David Kitzmiller’s poetry out of the quiet and into the places we live—kitchens, hospital rooms, late-night beds, and the hard edges of recovery. These collections trade polish for immediacy, presenting free-verse poems that confront love, loss, depression, lust, anger, and the strange humor that surfaces in the middle of pain.
Designed to be read as a book rather than skimmed online, these volumes ask readers to linger. The poems are compact but felt; they aim to land, echo, and then ask for response. In that way they act as a companion heartbeat to the Dealing with the Toaster memoirs—pieces that catch the emotional fragments the prose leaves behind.
Immersive Reading Experience
Immersive Reading Experience
Each volume is crafted for the physical book: page turns, white space, and the rhythm of line breaks matter. Read slowly, aloud if you like, and let the language reverberate. The visual presentation—type, spacing, and occasional images—helps shape the way the poems land and the spaces they open in the reader.
This is poetry meant to be felt in the body as much as the mind. It is not decorative—it's immediate, honest, and unvarnished in its aim to make private feeling public.
Themes and Style
Themes and Style
Emotional immediacy: poems that register feeling in compact, intense lines.
Survival and aftermath: reflections on addiction, loss, and ongoing recovery.
The absurd and the human: humor and irony threaded through darker material.
Form: predominantly free verse, with attention to pacing, white space, and rhythm.
Stylistically, these collections favor clarity and impact over ornament. Language is pared down where necessary and allowed to swell where feeling demands it. The result is poetry that reads like a conversation—sometimes abrasive, sometimes gentle, but always present.
Connection to the Dealing with the Toaster Series
Connection to the Dealing with the Toaster Series
As companions to the memoirs, these poems supply the emotional undercurrent of the Toaster universe. While the memoirs chart events and arc, Poems from the Toaster holds the fragments—moments of rage, tenderness, shame, and small surprise—that live between chapters. Together, the poetry and prose form a fuller portrait of a life shaped by trauma and a stubborn refusal to go quiet.
Purchase Poems from the toaster
Purchase Poems from the toaster
You can purchase Poems from the Toaster Volume I and Poems from the Toaster Volume II through major retailers:
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Volume I
Volume I
The first in the collection, Volume I collects short, intense poems that move quickly between grief and dark humor. Some pieces strike like a flash; others linger and unfurl slowly. The focus is on immediate feeling—the breath-holding, the jolt, the sudden tenderness that appears when least expected.
Volume II
Volume II
Volume II expands the scope, balancing harder-edged pieces with quieter, reflective work. Here you’ll find poems that turn outward—on travel, relationships, and the small ordinary moments that accumulate into memory—alongside poems that return to the interior struggles found throughout the series.
Special Edition
Special Edition
Exclusive Amazon release brings together Volume I and Volume II in to a single collection. With both volumes under one cover, readers can experience the evolution of the series in one continuous flow, tracing its full emotional sweep without interruption.
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