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“Among the best of the younger writers of fiction, let alone experimental fiction . . .”
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
“With the publication of Star Fiction . . . Belgum takes his place as one of the most prominent practitioners of the new radical short fiction.”
American Book Review
“Belgum once again surprises me, with something I’ve never heard the like of. Belgum somehow does for sound poetry what Bob Dylan did for rock music when he brought hate and hostility into popular song writing…”
Sonoloco (Sweden)
“The effect [of Strange Neonatal Cry] is almost that of a drugged, stuttering rapper. Dangerous performance art for dangerous times.”
21st Century Music
“A fierce brand of experimental fiction. . . More important, it's a damn funny story.”
City Pages (Minneapolis)
“Imagine a Raymond Carver short story scripted by Quentin Tarantino and adapted for performance by Robert Ashley and you might have an idea of what to expect.”
Paris Transatlantic
“The closed circuit of the narration [in Strange Neonatal Cry] recalls Beckett’s Malone Dies or Robbe-Grillet’s In the Labyrinth.”
All-Music Guide
“Brilliantly disturbing. . . post-minimalist operetta.”
New York Press
“[Star Fiction] is a wild ride throught the ragged edge of fiction. Quite fascinating if sometimes puzzling. . . actually laugh out loud funny and sometimes touching.”
Anomalies-Books
“[Blodder] is at once harsh and hilarious, not to mention desolately lysergic.”
Arcane Candy
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“The fast-splicing of Belgum's libretto keep the listener's attention in a vice grip throughout.”
Paris New Music Review
“The writing and performances [in Blodder] are stunning.”
Resonance - London Musicians' Collective
“Belgum injects a variety of styles into his delivery - from a smooth straightforward delivery to a broken, robotic, faltering voice on the razor-slice tightrope which hangs over insanity, suspended between normality of mind, and, maybe, enlightenment or a Nirvana-like state of being.”
Metamorphic Journeyman
(England)
“Comprising techniques of speech and sound in the spirit of Alvin Lucier and LaMonte Young, Belgum’s Strange Neonatal Cry is equally as compelling and mysterious.”
e.i. Music Magazine
“The work of the writer and musician Erik Belgum is, in many ways, the literary distillation of the ideas presented by Chopin, Burroughs and Oswald.”
New Media Poetics (MIT Press)
“[Bad Marriage Mantra is] horrible and funny in equal proportion.”
Update (England)
“[Belgum's] linear narration collapses within the blasted equations of a schizoid mathematics.”
Small Press Traffic
“Pure Bergsonism. . .”
break/flow (London)
“Blodder isn't much like anything else.”
The Stranger (Seattle)
“Poesia a brandelli, voci scordate, sogni infranti…Bad Marriage Mantra di Erik Begum è emblematico un mantra di insolubili schizofrenie coniugali.” Sands-zine (Italy)
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