The Husbandman is a compelling collection of poems sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, and sometimes vaguely hinting at other ideas that are best summed up by the climax of the short story included at the end.
Reviews
Foreword Reviews, by Clarion Review
• Rosenfeld writes with passionate intelligence about his concerns for societal and governmental ills.
• The cover features Eugene Delocroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People, in which Marianne, the French republic’s symbol for freedom and justice, leads a rebellion. The Husbandman contains thoughtful poetry and prose about the human condition and will interest those who, like Marianne, advocate for greater individual freedom.
Kirkus Reviews
• A poetic cri de coeur from a proponent of liberty.
• Rosenfeld made the idiosyncratic choice to express his philosophical and political thinking in verse.
• Rosenfeld closes the collection with a short story…a satirical riff in the key of Jonathan Swift or Mark Twain…
• Strong poetry that sometimes get weighed down by the ideological burden it has to bear.
BlueInk Reviews
• Rosenfeld criticizes the American economy as led by the Federal Reserve and other institutions. If moralistic, the poems are also lively.
• The poems make their points in straightforward syntax, generally delivering equal length stanzas (most often quatrains) and employing various patterns of end rhyme.