Tod Marshall is the author of Bugle (Canarium Books, 2014), The Tangled Line (Canarium Books, 2009) and Dare Say (University of Georgia Press, 2002). He has also published Range of the Possible: Conversations with Contemporary Poets (Eastern Washington University Press, 2002) and Range of Voices: A Collection of Contemporary Poets (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005).

"In ABC of Reading Pound wrote, 'Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.' The fascination in The Tangled Line  is the unlikely, and surprisingly honest way that the emotional check is ultimately made good. —Mike McDonogh, Coldfront