Toothache

Joseph Donato (2023)

Sink your teeth into “Toothache”.

“Toothache”, Joseph Donato’s debut poetry chapbook explores adolescence through the eyes of the mouth.

These bite-sized poems dissect the horrors of growing up and are sure to leave you with a bitter aftertaste (the good kind).

Published by above / ground press, May 2023.

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Order a copy from me and receive a complimentary print of Toothache, the monster, along with some fancy teeth stickers.
A chapbook is a small publication of around 15-40 pages in length. Quick to read, fun to collect.
Why not? Mind your business.

as someone with teeth, i can say that toothache hurts just as it should.

— Isla McLaughlin, author of girl, online
Joseph Donato’s Toothache yanks sense by the root. In this collection of taut, imagistic poems, Donato laces things tight, wiggling short character studies out of drippy cavities. Toothache pours the surrealism of Richard Brautigan or Stuart Ross through their own caramel. Toothache leaves your cheeks stuffed.

— ryan fitzpatrick, publisher of Model Press
Toothache is a hit, a masterpiece. The author should be praised and adored and given money.

— Joseph Donato, author of Toothache

— Toothache (2023)