"The energetic, accessible poems of Dave Malone celebrate sex and excess...but even as these poems tease the id, they awe the ear and the imagination."
--poet Matt Brennan

"Dave Malone seems to have some kind of passion that reminds me of (dare I say it?) Romance.  Could it be that sex and love actually belong together?"
--poet Diane Wakoski

"Malone celebrates the very real embodied lover.  He joins a long line of poets like Sappho, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Allen Ginsberg, whose poetry was considered shocking, if not obscene, for its invocation of sexuality and desire."
--critic Nicolas Shump