Toad's Sanctuary is a book-length work composed of Tamas Panitz's recent poetry, closet speeches, advertisements, manifestos, and ceremonies. These coil and uncoil as they claim the ground of an associative activity within the present. The tongue surprises me again / in the prism of the sentence, Panitz writes in the poem " Three Tarot Cards." Readers will likewise encounter many surprises spoken into life within his curious texts, which play across genres and eras with startling fluency, and are never quite what they seem.