out of nowhere
scenes from st petersburg
by bob kunzinger
all nations press
the finest new poetry and non-fiction
This collection of independent, yet related essays carries readers through the backroads and side alleys of Russia's tragic and beautiful northern city. From the first stream of observations in "Sweeping" to the final moments of the digressively moving "First Person," Out of Nowhere exposes not just St. Petersburg, but the author and reader as well.
$14 US $22 Canada ISBN 0-9725110-1-6
from "sweeping"...
Here, history comes in thousand year periods and the future unfolds just hours at a time. In St Petersburg, Russians suffer a severe lack of privacy compromising the intimacy of the tender touch, consistent love. One old woman in Smolensky Cemetery was a young girl when Nicholas II was Czar, and later buried her father, her brother, her son, and now lives mostly in the woods, in the empty spaces of St. Petersburg, behind Smolensky Church. Her skin is transparent, and her eyes dark and musty, like she is always thinking of something else. Yes, Russians are always thinking of something else...
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