November 29, 2024. ‘Robert Zend’s Oāb is a visionary work that breaks new ground, even in today’s postmodern literary landscape. Blending the techniques of concrete poetry, visual art, collage, and, of course, the rich tradition of the modernist long poem, Oāb is perhaps the original hybrid text, questioning the boundaries of form and genre in ways that writers today can only aspire to.’ –Kristina Marie Darling

May 20, 2025. ‘Oāb represents one of the great achievements of twentieth century avant-garde poetry and poetics. Epic in scale and form, cosmological in scope and ambition, and playful by nature, Oāb blends humor, ancient myth and spiritualisms, authorial self-reflexivity, various technologies, forms and philosophies until its organic brilliance assumes the mystique and guise of an originary codex. Far ahead of his time, Zend’s modern, exhaustive approach to intertextuality is unprecedented amongst the twentieth century’s post-war, North American poets. Zend’s work, in Oāb especially, is a marvel to behold and contemplate, to read and re-read, inside or outside of time or place.’ –Jared Schickling