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Category: Reviews & Testimonials

Cât ai clipi dintr-al treilea ochi

Valery March 13, 2025March 13, 2025

translated from English to Romanian by Nadia Brunstein Reviewed in Itaca nr. 45, March 2024 Confessions of a Surrealist Poet in Wanderings Emanuel Pope(editor “Itaca” magazine-Dublin)Translated from original Romanian Once

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Here, There and Nowhere

Valery March 13, 2025March 13, 2025

Reviewed by Bill Wolok, Rain Taxi

Review of In the Blink of a Third Eye

Valery September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

American Book Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, Spring 2022 by Allan Graubard Valery Oisteanu—poet, performer, artist and art critic— has led quite a life. Born in Russia in 1943, he

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Infosurr (Orléans, France)

Valery April 6, 2022April 6, 2022

Actualités du surréalisme et ses alentoursNumber 154, mars-avril 2021 http://www.infosurr.net/ Review by Laurens Vancrevel In the Blink of a Third Eye (Valery Oisteanu) The new book of the master of

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Stash Luczkiw Review

Valery June 20, 2021June 20, 2021

In the Blink of a Third EyeSpuyten Duyvil, 2020 Rain Taxi Summer 2021 With his latest collection, In the Blink of a Third Eye, three formal vectors converge: poetry, prose,

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Placing the Image

Valery May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

first published in Arteidolia, May 2021written by John Greiner The image cut off from classical context and reinserted in a manner contrary to the standard to create a new vision

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Valery Oisteanu: The Last Man Standing of Modern American Poetry

Site Administrator December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

VALERY IS ONE OF [THE POST-BEAT ARTISTS], AND PERHAPS THE LAST SURVIVING ONE AT THAT. IN 2019, HE FINALLY CAME TO JAPAN WITH HIS WIFE RUTH, AND WE MET EACH

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Praise for Lighter Than Air

Valery December 20, 2020December 20, 2020

Overview A fascination with hands and the female body, a kind of natural history of sultry affairs with high heels and Rococo sugars, an insolent funny erotic weightless “expose” of

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Praise for Perks in Purgatory

Valery December 20, 2020December 20, 2020

Perks [in Purgatory] is lush and rococo, a surreal stream-of-consciousness, grapholalic, damn-all set of raw reflections by a poet who’s been around the cultural block, who has seen things, thought

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Praise for In the Blink of a Third Eye

Valery December 13, 2020January 8, 2021

I’m so excited to have your new book! When I read your poetry, it’s always in your voice. You have the most dramatic, passionate delivery and I hear that in

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