"What astounds is the clarity and uniqueness of [Coleman's] perceptions. . . . Highly recommended."

--Library Journal

"Adds a remarkably divergent voice to the richly multicultural strain of recent American poetry. A poet of tremendous range and verbal energy. . . . Coleman is a poet who courts disruptionas a way of making sense of a mind-boggling diversity of values."

--West Branch

"A veritable atomic bomb of Brechtian-style 'verfremdung.' Ostinato Vamps is Coleman's most accessible and powerful work to date and my third-choice reading of the year."

--Isthmus Books Quarterly