Set against a pink, black, and gold net.... Koestenbaum took to the piano to perform short pieces by some of his favorite composers, including Scriabin, Chopin, Fauré, Milhaud, and Poulenc, while sing-talking improvisational monologues that obtained the look and feel of both poetry and stand-up comedy. Koestenbaum struck a delicate sonic balance between aural poignancy and the midnight sound of a cat in heat, breaking once between two sets to read a gorgeous, fragmentary poem.

Andrew Durbin, Artforum

Did you hear? Poet, critic, painter, and now memoirist and piano virtuoso Wayne Koestenbaum lost seven pounds dreaming out loud to his own rendition of Scriabin's piano miniatures. He really did it! Google it.

Jack Bankowsky, Artforum

Perverse, idiosyncratic, brilliant, curious, astonished, inspired..... The witty and vulnerable openness of these poems would be enough to make them appealing. But then there is a refreshingly casual (that is, not ostentatious) polymathic erudition that informs them--covering film, philosophy, literature, visual arts, and more--that makes them all the more compelling.

Thomas March, LAMBDA Literary Review