Alan Catlin, writing in MisFit Magazine states
that “Rutkowski’s pieces are to prose poems what Russell Edson’s are to
fiction. Thad’s work has many of the same elements of Edson’s best work:
absurd, outrageous situations and resolutions, deft biting satirical humor, and
a mock, generally self-effacing narrator. So go with flash fictions. It
works as well as any other designation does. This is good, highly charged,
terrific, distinctive writing no matter what you call it.”
The book has gotten numerous favorable
comments. Author Ed Lin calls Rutkowski; “the original language gangster (who)
tips over words and lets them fall on you.” And Max Blagg states that Rutkowski’s
collection: “skirts the edge of psychological revelation, with hints of darker
meaning coursing below the surface.”
Emerson has said that a writer, in
order to write well, must give oneself wholly to their feelings as one has them,
and not to thesauri or dictionaries. In “Violent Outbursts” it appears that
Thaddeus Rutkowski has taken this direction to a good end.
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Violent
Outbursts
Thaddeus
Rutkowski
ISBN
978-1-941550-58-8
124
pages 16.00 USD
Spuyten
Duyvil
Brooklyn,
New York
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