Tysdal's poetry, Canadian writer Jon Paul Fiorentino writes, "is an exhilarating mix of pop culture, philosophy, mythology, and visual art.

Thus, whether writing a traditional lyric or elegy, or dealing with subjects as diverse as bukkake and Walter Benjamin, Tysdal "gets us to rethink what constitutes a poetic text.

"[2] George Elliot Clarke observes, "for all their high-minded, critical jouissance, the lyrics are lively with accessible puns, jokes, games, and satire.

"One Way of Shuffling Is Ten Hours into Back-to-Back Sessions Going on Tilt," a meditation on ideas of order and origin through a hand of Texas Hold 'Em, takes the visual form of a deck of cards.

"How We Know We Are Being Addressed by the Man Who Shot Himself Online" works with the images taken from the digital footage of a suicide posted on the World Wide Web, an innovative poetic strategy praised by one reviewer as the book's "most horrifying intermingling of text with visuals.