Streaming straight out of the Surrealist matrix, Valery Oisteanu’s poetry takes us back to the movement’s origins and simultaneously propels us forward, giving us the energy and values of what Breton-Péret-Desnos et al. synthesized while “making it new” for our day.

These poems are powerful, thrilling, wise, and politically right on target. Grab this book before somebody else does! Bill ZavatskyVALERY PULLS OUT, PULLS UP; THE REAL HISTORY, THE REAL LIFE, THE REAL IMAGES; FOR THESE BRAIN POLLUTED, ROBOTIC, UNREAL, TIMES! GET IT? GOT IT? GOOD!Charles Plymell, Soothsayer, Cherry Valley EditionsHow to bring in anything or anywhere that’s not already here: from Central Park to Woodstock to Oaxaca, war and erotics and the grounded celestial? All present in this poetry, surely.

Mary Ann Caws, author of Alice Paalen Rahon: Shapeshifter, Creative Gatherings, Mina Loy: Apology of GeniusValery Oisteanu bears witness to the marvelous, the magical and the horrific. His poems narrate the ever-unfolding flower of human existence in a cascade of striking surreal observations.

From the tattooed eyelids and crocodile-headed mannequins of Oaxaca, to the sunflowers blooming amongst the corpses of Ukraine, from the dirty washing machines littering a Manhattan lot like cemetery stones, to the hypnotic forests and walking mountains of Woodstock, Valery shows us how the poet can and must transform the world. “Rebirth is around the corner,” he says.

Act, sing and speak, “before we become inhuman. ” Here, There and Nowhere is a visionary, inspirational work.

Carl Watson. .