Praise for American Air

“Do not waste time reading anything else this year, I mean it.” — Chelsea Martin

“Master of the sublime monkeyshine, Mike Topp has always had one finger on the pulse of our cuckoo culture, and with the other four fingers, he has somehow managed to type up two score and fourteen new larky koans, rollicking runes, and madcap mots—just enough perfectly pitched one-, two-, and three-liners to keep us snug in the delirium that makes consciousness bearable. American Air is a vest-pocket epic, a fresh boffo song of ourselves.” — Garielle Lutz

“Like haiku spread across multiple volumes, Mike Topp’s writing is both efficiently miniature and impossibly gigantic. (Reading his work makes me think of the tiny fragmented epiphanies that flash across our brains right before we fall asleep.) It’s meditative, too: Even when he’s addressing, or quietly eviscerating, something stressful, his writing calms me down. In this wonderful new collection, American Air, for instance, he writes, in part, about the internet, crypto, social media influencers, hedge fund managers, and other painfully modern things, but the poems remain timeless, spacious, and calm. It turns out he can write elegantly—and hilariously—about anything.” — Brandon Stosuy

“American Air you can breathe! This precious commodity is now an inhaler-book! Buy a copy and watch the edelweiss bloom on your head. Inhale deeply! Thank you, Mike Topp!” — Andrei Codrescu