In the Field of Unintended Consequences
The poems in In the Field of Unintended Consequences evoke the natural and human ecologies of rural Vermont and the urban wilderness of Brooklyn, NY. They are influenced by rap, reggae, punk and William Carlos Williams.
First Review:
"Two long, rangy, allusive poems, “Wild Chervil” and “Gingko and footnotes,” frame Peter Schneider’s excellent full-length collection In the Field of Unintended Consequences. Both poems blend physical description, scientific fact, environmental consciousness, and Eastern and Western philosophy. "
Tom Zimmerman
Editor, The Big Windows Review
FIND ME
Find Me: Stories by Bruce F. Kawin collects eight tales ranging in length from two pages to nearly a hundred, some strange and some comforting.
Their topics include a brilliant sculpture made and named by a six-year-old girl; an FBI investigation that Kafka would recognize; a remark Borges made in a park to Kenneth Koch; and a fable of innocence and violence in an elementary school menagerie. The title novella, "Find Me," is a drama of love beyond death set in 21st-century Los Angeles in which the lovers confront both political and metaphysical forces on their way to a startling end.
Review:
A celebrated cinema historian, Bruce F. Kawin now throws a literary curveball across half a century of dedicated writing. With many voices of his own, he's also a masterly ventriloquist who can do "the thin black-wrapped man," Mrs. DiAngelo, "Nature Man," Jorge Luis Borges, Jasmine Chen, and a tantalizing throng of others—all so beautifully that I wanted to talk to them myself. Terse and yet opulent, these stories are a revelation of language in action. Coming on the success of his poetry book, Love If We Can Stand It, it's not an opening anyone can afford to miss.
David E. James
Janet Kaplan
Her new poetry collection is forthcoming.