Reviews of Hysterical Surrealism

"Historically the surrealism that we’re familiar with kick-started as a movement in Europe in the aftermath of the First World war – but it’s always kick-starting wherever there’s authoritarianism in the smoking air. After all: ‘Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be.’ ‘Hysterical Surrealism’ picks all this history and combines it with the frantic tone of Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and the urbane speed wedge prosody of David Foster Wallace. In the face of scenarios that are populated by diminished and insecure Presidents and Prime Ministers, overwhelming information and interpretation, paralyzing cynicism and anomie alongside the bromide of seductive dogmatic talking points and party line propaganda, it turns the convulsive high-entropic context into marvels."

"The texts are multidimensional throughout, leaping off the page, not nestling comfortably within the whiteness, ‘sculptures that looked nothing like words’ as Anonymous states or words that burn and dance as Tanya Zeifer intones. There is Blakean joy and mysticism in these works, fused with a synchronic understanding of language in the internet era."