You Are No Phoenix, You Are Merely Aflame by Daniel Tompkins

As veteran of both Afghanistan and the ivy League, and as both a metaphysical cowboy and an award-winning advertising writer, Daniel Tompkins possesses sufficient accretions of experience to offer in YOU ARE NO PHOENIX, YOU ARE MERELY AFLAME an engrossing first collection. His work is right on time as he lifts the veil on material usually kept hidden. Tompkins scrutinizes experience and finds, then releases, great power within the written word.

–Peggy Ellsberg

“Tompkins’ work bristles with pleasure and acuity. It stimulates, combs, pulls, and weeds out the dull thickness. Marriage, sex, the body and the shifting sheaths of desire and comittment build and ebb across this startling debut collection, subtly destroying and then redefining each other, finally coalescing with rawness and intimacy.”