Bøker av Matthew Kraus

Edgar Randolf, a homeowner, Edna Seabrook, his cook, and the homeowner's friend, Dan Cleary, expound on food and cooking. Dan comes sometimes with another friend. Their notions of dining include about diet and the kitchen. Edgar and Edna enjoy regular meals in their living situation, Edna is the most involved in the cooking and kitchen duties. Their time is spent with regular enjoyment of food. In the course of many weeks, Edgar serves herbal teas and dishes to his friends. As years pass, Edna lectures on cooking and takes some outside jobs. The general approach to the meals goes through various dishes, to baking, cookie making, rolls, bread and pretzels. Then the serious meat eaters dishes are given attention. After lengthy herb tea presentations, the focus is on Thanksgiving and turkey, and that is followed by some pork recipes. Then, the general approach is from a mock cafe where there are considerations of vegetarianism, fasting, and cookware. Finally, a return to the general meals and dishes takes the consideration to a new view of more dishes. Matthew was born abroad and graduated from high school in Hawaii (Oahu). He has an AA university degree. He has written some poetry, getting some poems published in a journal and books. His recent books published is Dream and Vision Poems (2021)

This book has a variety of references to dream(s); and with the imagery, which is more-so in the visions. The poems considerations are with light psychological aspects such as the dream may have. Then, these dream and vision poems are with some topical support.These are mostly prose poems allowing an overall view of the poet's writing including some diagonal poems.

Exhaustive Psychedelics is the first part of Gang Recreational Drug Use and Rehabilitation, the second part is Schmoodge. Schmoodge is used in a conversation over alcoholic beverages where the speaker is slurring, supposedly as in an effort to speak the word "smooth" but being drunk comes up with "schmoodge."The book follows a small gang of people from the early seventies who have developed a practice of psychedelic use through to the eighties. They eventually lean in the direction of a rehab after an incident that signaled the end of their tablet psychedelic use and ushered them to consider going to rehab. Drinking ensues. Drinking for the gang tapers off to coffee drinking.The plot is interspersed with an explaining narrative, somewhat like a newspaper article.