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"Billed as a 'backpocket compendium,' the volume ... professes the insurrectionary properties of poetic desire in such a fashion as to make it a worthy descendent of such legendary and incendiary texts as Allen Gingsberg's Howl and Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters. Gorgeous artwork by Anais LaRue and and precise production by Eberhardt Press give Swift Winds an aesthetic glory and old school feel. The blend of styles interspersed with LaRue's images conjures the mood of a mixtape stitched lovingly to our souls... Swift Winds is perhaps Sakolsky's most creative and unique contribution to our common literature of dream and revolt."
—Andy Sunfrog, Fifth Estate {Summer/Fall 2009}

“Swift Winds has everything.
It is lyrical
scholarly
humorous
unbounded
Bravo”
—John Zerzan

“What a good book — and what a good looking book.
Kudos to the smart surrealist illustrator — elegantissimo.”
—Peter Lamborn Wilson

“Thank you for your beautiful book! Everything about it is delicious.”
—Diane di Prima

“…a lovely book!”
—Penelope Rosemont

“...this book is amazingly beautiful. three colors, beautiful cover and artwork throughout by Anais LaRue. If anything, this may be the nicest thing Eberhardt has published so far, which believe me, says a lot. … I like every single thing in Swift Winds. This book is highly recommended.”
—David Glashan, No Quarter, #4

“I liked it very much and just after the postman had ringed twice, started reading. I liked the drawings by Anais LaRue. The cover is very nice and so are the artworks inside.”
—Her De Vries, Brumme Blonde (Amsterdam)

“…great content, and the design is lovely.”
—Kate Khatib, Red Emma’s Bookstore

“As objective chance would have it Swift Winds arrived in the mail yesterday afternoon and was like a message from the future. When I opened the envelope, my son Benjamin was sitting at the table eating lunch and was immediately entranced by the image of the boat on the Eberhardt promotional postcard—‘cut this out for me dada, so that I can glue it to the picture I am coloring.’ As he was piecing together his own collage, I opened the book at random and read him ‘Surrealist Ferry Demands,’ which he took to mean ‘fairy demands,’ leading to a rather odd conversation before I figured out the source of the confusion, and we laughed heartily about ‘Developer Safety’ as well. Freshly inspired, I feel that Swift Winds was an important catalyst here.”
—Don (and Benjamin) La Coss