Review of In the Blink of a Third Eye
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)
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
Stash Luczkiw Review
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,
Placing the Image
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
Valery Oisteanu: The Last Man Standing of Modern American Poetry
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
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
Praise for Perks in Purgatory
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
Praise for In the Blink of a Third Eye
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
Praise for Anarchy for a Rainy Day
Like fine wine, I am reading your poems in Anarchy for a Rainy day slowly. I am traveling the globe with you, walking streets, dancing with dead poets, surviving fires.