MMm... Utterance  

Verb Sap is smart, funny and absorbing -- makes you want to move around, read it out, a strange kind of aural knowledge. Magnus' writing calls up the familiar, even the absurd, and twists every observation or overheard fragment into a play of sustained revelations. 

    -Thalia Field

Reminiscent of 20^th Century Russian absurdist poetry, with its wild wordplay and philosophic underpinning, Verb Sap’s 13^th hour ruminations, break-of-day transpositions, and in-your-face midday tagging, make it irresistible work-a-day sneak reading. This book has a skewed rational or disorderly relationship to American Daily Life. It is itself a life-form—for the gobbling. Me, I broke it down by way of post-industrial nucleotides. To great effect. 
    -Rodrigo Toscano

Word to the wise:  read this love letter to what language can do for you.  M. Magnus’ VERB SAP taps the very blood of language – the textures here get at the many-fingered roots, the “crossweave fabric” of rhizomatic namings that thrust ever outward, always “by way of a word.”  Here, the “Elfic D’oracle” signifies how a “single word can change your life.” 

    -Lee Ann Brown