Rustin LarsonÕs exquisitely crafted new collection mixes the ordinary, real world with surreal, fantastical visions. ÒI arrive at a mansion / Surrounded by fallen branches/ And ice. / Inside are chairs / That resemble lions / Or laws / Or the boredom of kings.Ó He reminds us of the magical realism of Gabriel Garc’a M‡rquez and Jorge Luis Borges: ÒA piano, / With its keys locked under its cover, / Is some giant creature / At the bottom of the sea, /Waiting.Ó Like a painter saturating the colors of Earth, exalting its geography from delirious beauty to war nightmares, Larson takes the reader on a dreamlike journey, filled with flashbacks, family memories, and ghosts. --HŽl�ne Cardona, award winning author of Dreaming My Animal Selves / Le Songe de mes åmes Animales.