"Toscano’s WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. demands close reading: each precise phrase, layered reference, and intricate metaphor mobilizes a transhistorical, yet deeply situated, foray into the metapolitics of form (and formal strategies: jokes, jousts, and gestures). Spanning themes from 'Imperium' to 'Humanitas' in his unique demotic style, Toscano's work blends collective action and poetic diplomacy in its critique of national and hemispheric imaginaries, Hispanic representation (past and present), and an emerging new global reset. Wide-ranging, yet pliant and compact, WHITMAN.CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. deftly scales up and scales down the hemispheric rumor mills in the poetry metaverse, offering 'combustions, pipelines, [and] canalizations of fire' that traffic and power the (often disregarded, imperceptible) aesthetic networks which define our contemporary moment."

Jose-Luis Moctezuma, author of "Black Box Syndrome"

"A geo-politic, an untamed poetics of transnational realignment, or an overloaded composter of 'ethno-politico GPS' signals towards a new mytho-poetic of the Americas. Here’s a poetics built out of economic flows, of multilingual contradictions, of neo or just OG-colonial hustles. A new world symphony for our utterly disoriented century, wildly satirical and utterly serious, taking us all down, especially 'us,' the poets, the academics, the 'culture workers,' struggling to keep up with the changing world order. Forget about it! If you thought you knew what poetry 'does,' you were wrong. And now, even better, you still don’t know, because that’s what the prophetic feels like."

Julie Carr, author of "Underscore"