BOMB
...even after speaking extensively with Chris, he remains as enigmatic as his work, as though he was never a child, simply plucked from an elliptical myth...
Anonymous at HTMLGiant
I think there´s something almost naturally playful in this kind of wordplay, but in Toll it’s weird, and prophetic, and sincere ...
Nick Sturm at Read This Awesome Book
Indeed, Chris Toll’s irreverent imagination is a weird holy light in these poems. This is one of those books that you leave out on your desk, a thing you keep in reach, not only because its incredible cover (one of Toll’s own collages) refuses to be hidden on a bookshelf, but because these poems are irreducible, subversive fun.
Alan C. Reese at the Loch Raven Review
Toll writes with a romantic’s machine gun that fires flowers, balloon animals, and soap bubbles filled with nitrous oxide.
Lauren Larocca at the Frederick News Post
... a Tollian world of contemplation but with a lightness about it, a playfulness. Amid the play come profound moments.
An interview with Chris at Artichoke Haircut
He thought about that for a minute, stared down at his beer. “I always want my poems to be a voyage of discovery,” he explained. “I get one line and then I just see what comes in. I use wordplay as a way to go from one spot to another, but they almost always end in questions. There is no answer; the question is everything.”
Cara Ober at Urbanite
This new book of poetry by Chris Toll is a breath of fresh, future-tinted air.
Nicolle Elizabeth at The Faster Times
In Toll’s disinformation, insight informs. Humility and bravery abound, the conscious is ever-shifting, and our understanding of our understanding equally moved. Toll’s concern is not entirely with why, but rather, how.
R. M. O'Brien at WORMS
Within a deceptively minimal set of syntactic maneuvers, Toll presents a rich and varied world of boundless danger and boundless wonder.
Mike Young at his blog
The Disinformation Phase is "like a pop scifi Lorca. Lots of fun."
Rupert Wondolowski at The Shattered Wig:
"The official release date for this book is June 28th and summer seems like an appropiate season for it. You can feel the ache of brutal winters past in these prayers to the skies, but there is a feeling of fresh urgency and rebirth to them; each one explodes with possible stories, possible new lives."
Dylan Kinnett's What Weekly Review
The Disinformation Phase "is populated by unusual imagery, from which the cover is derived, no doubt. The poetry is also populated by Toll’s startling inquisitions of the language. For example, in a poem entitled 'Why is Try in Poetry', the question is posed: “why is love backwards in evolve?” The title and that line are just two examples, among many, where Toll playfully examines the presence of one word within another."
