“Tony Zurlo's bemused observation of physics and the modern world it stands for is at once clever and poignant. In daringly original contaminations (dare I say 'mashups'?), T.S. Eliot's cat is locked inside Schroedinger's box and Picasso meets quantum theory. Reality is disjointed, 'Up is Down,/Strange is Charm,/Truth is Beauty' and there are no certainties left: 'a land where the truth, the whole truth,/and nothing but the truth is jabberwocky.' The façade of normal life starts to peel off: 'Everywhere he looks/the cracks look back.' Yet, right when despair seem to loom, Zurlo's poetry lifts off in the sublime, such as in the last two lines of Quantum Fatherhood: 'My day over, I relaxed and the wave/ function that was me began splitting into separate universes. Quantum Chaos is meant to be enjoyed as a healing poetic potion against post-modern and post-millennial angst.”
Salvatore Attardo International Journal of Humor Research

“Tony Zurlo’s Quantum Chaos: Learning to live with Cosmic Confusion is a delightful romp through fatherhood, pop-culture, pet-ownership, musicianship, Van Gogh and Picasso using the tropes and language of modern quantum theory, which serves as a leitmotiv—a poetic unified field theory—tying together this unique collection. At once funny, clever and thought-provoking, these twenty-three well-crafted pieces offer a surrealistic intermixture of Fuzzy Theory with fatherhood, worm-holes and word-play, The Beatles and The Big Bang, T.S. Eliot’s cat and Schroedinger’s cat, all with turns-of-phrase and diction as unpredictable as anything governed by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.”
James Wilk The Seven-Year Night

“Zurlo has a unique style of language that is a pleasure to read, and after finishing Quantum Chaos, his words remain: 'My temples are exploding stars. My eyes are burned out comets. And constellations creep ever onward into the starry night.'”
R Jay Slais Mice Verses Man