RaveBOMB MagazineThe words create image, illusion, fantasy, and projection, circling back under, over, and around the facts he has already given us, imbuing them with lust, fear, courage, nihilism, and rage ... a portal into an outsider movement that evolved, with a high-energy combination of arrogance and vulnerability, into a literary canon ... The essence of Little Boy is an embracing of both the enduring cosmic mystery and daily stupidities of the mind’s multi-layered fractal structure, the madness of love, the futility of narrative, the obliqueness of language, and the potential of perception. This book burns bright in your hands. Read it to yourself, aloud.
Lou Reed
PositiveBOMBHe introduced every piece with a sly kick, but as he read his new poems, his tone shifted into suspended vulnerability. He was re-learning how to embrace his separateness, via a different mode of performance ... Suddenly, he wasn’t talking about his endless cast of outsiders—he was talking about all of us, and the love and rage present in every moment. He also went in very close, offering a sweet directness, always with a sharp nick of the knife, moving from within a lover’s embrace into the unknown ... Go to the edge, and that’s where you’ll find freedom and eternity. Reed knew this intimately.
