"He is James Joyce reborn as a rap artist." Mel Gussow, The New York Times "What Wellman does best [is] approach the mystery of things without succumbing to mute darkness." Charles McNulty, Village Voice "Wellman is our latter-day Brecht, providing the Verfremdung, the `making strange' that makes us see what has been before us all along." Marjorie Perloff