“...[Vitkauskas'] poems are saturated with chemicals, textures, atmosphere, and media. In A Neon Tryst, her ‘trysts’ are movies, fantasies, art... "—Johannes Göransson, author of The Sugar Book (Tarpaulin Sky)
“Splendid, grotesque, violent, but always loving, Lina Ramona writes like a contemporary Marina Tsvetaeva through a landscape of the uncertain and surreal...” —Sandra Simonds, 2015 Akron Poetry Prize Winner
“...[she] combines the Handmaid’s Tale with mad science and the meaningful meaningless dialogue of politics and propaganda...[her] poems are subtle in their devious shifts and proclamations..." —Daniel Borzutzky, 2016 National Book Award Winner (Poetry)
“The poetic worlds Vitkauskas creates are like reverse matrioszka, nesting dolls that only expand rather than recede.” —Mark Tardi, The Circus of Trust (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017)
“...a Pynchon-esque bend to her work overall, a sense that the images of films are being translated into other tongues, maybe even languages we don’t speak ourselves, languages that might not exist...” —James Pate, The Fassbinder Diaries (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2013)
“...[Vitkauskas'] poems are saturated with chemicals, textures, atmosphere, and media. In A Neon Tryst, her ‘trysts’ are movies, fantasies, art... "—Johannes Göransson, author of The Sugar Book (Tarpaulin Sky)
