Useful Shrapnel

<p>John Findura's Useful Shrapnel is an amazing tour de force of language and sentiment. Moreover his poetry demonstrates what it is to be a real human being.</p><p>-Noelle Kocot</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>John Findura's strange and alluring Useful Shrapnel delights us and teaches us to listen ever more closely ever more actively to our various hopes and fears and performances. He writes: I collect the broken / things and I reform / them into what I think / they should look like / which is often words / that amuse only me-and in this dance there is a challenge and a process that can teach us what is necessary. Draw a map of the rooms he writes So we'll know where to hide-self and other self and self-in process transformation-Findura teaches us what it is to feel and think. Useful Shrapnel is wonderful poetry.</p><p>-Joseph Lease</p>