“Powerful. Focused. Absolutely direct and damn good.”
—D.R. Wagner, The Night Market
“ENJOY OBLIVION is a chilling obituary. It is rare to find such honest emotion. This is a remarkably innovative work of poetry and art.”
—Tony Moffeit, Pueblo Blues
“ENJOY OBLIVION will have you reaching for your children and holding onto them as though they were your last breath.”
—Matthew J. Hall, Screaming with Brevity
“ENJOY OBLIVION is a necrology, where each brief poem is a notice, a blunt nail, a shovel of dirt on the coffin.”
—Stephen T. Berg, There Are No Small Moments
“There’s nothing but truth here. It’s like cursing someone out and having them say that one thing, that one simple line that cuts you to the bone. Conversation over.”
—Cassandra Dallett, Wet Reckless
“Wolfgang Carstens is a master storyteller, a poet who doesn't mince words. No, he grinds the shit out of them. ENJOY OBLIVION is ostensibly a final farewell to a father who fucked it all up. The catharsis comes in a slow exhale when the words are done.”
—Mark Givens, Mung Being
“This is the obituary you hope nobody ever writes about you.”
—Matt Galletta, The Ship is Sinking
“This is humour without the smile, stand-up without the braying laughs, and poetry without pretension.”
—Zack Wilson, Lone Striker
“In Carstens’ world, less is certainly more and the longer he writes, the more savagely he pares back his language to the bone. In his deceptively simple use of language in ENJOY OBLIVION, he shares with us a huge range of intense human emotions which have impacted upon him as a young child: hatred, regret, grief, rage.”
--George Anderson, Bold Monkey
“ENJOY OBLIVION is a series of spare, finely sharpened poems.”
—William Taylor Jr., The Blood of a Tourist
“Focused. Hateful. Touching. Enjoy Oblivion shoves the reader to the foot of a deathbed, then pulls back the threadbare sheet. Carstens exposes the body. Karlsson shades in the wrinkles and age spots. The reader is left to sort through the emotions.”
—RL Raymond, Sonofabitch Poems