Splash State by Todd Colby

For international orders, please visit our distributor, here. An extended love letter, Todd Colby’s sixth collection SPLASH STATE is filled with humor and charm. These poems are as concerned with aging, time, being, and death as they are with eliminating “the need for anxious circumstances” with facts, instructions, and advice. From extolling the uses of “Shark’s Paw” and “Fink Leaf” to “how to look like everything is okay in photographs,” Colby’s poems opt for the personal and generous, even when his tongue is firmly planted in cheek. If melancholy is just around the corner, these poems will walk with you in the opposite direction. “The wonder and disappointment of every day in the city of love is Todd Colby’s subject. It amounts to a ‘splash state’, wherein everything gets shaken up, yet somehow miraculously finds its place. 'The affection/ you show when things turn sour,/ and all the other complexities of now’ keep lovers alive to one another, 'both sustainable and ecstatic.’ 'We ge