Rustin Larson's Blog, page 23

Poems: 2007-2017, Conestoga Zen Press

[image error] Rustin Larson’s exquisitely crafted new collection mixes the ordinary, real world with surreal, fantastical visions. “I arrive at a mansion / Surrounded by fallen branches/ And ice. / Inside are chairs / That resemble lions / Or laws / Or the boredom of kings.” He reminds us of the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges: “A piano, / With its keys locked under its cover, / Is some giant creature / At the bottom of the sea, /Waiting.” 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. –Hélène Cardona, award winning author of Dreaming My Animal Selves / Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales.

New from Conestoga Zen Press

[image error] Memoir poetry of the 20th and 21st Centuries. “Like Odysseus, Larson has been trying to find his way home, or at least to redefine that home. Larson’s vehicle for his journey is the process of writing itself, which he has dedicated himself to and which he knows can be both circuitous and serendipitous. But the writer who pursues his craft, like Odysseus who pursues the journey home, must have patience. . . the poet and his journey are one.” —Stephen Schneider, Pirene’s Fountain

Butter Cow

https://www.iowasource.com/2018/07/31/featured-poem-butter-cow/

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3 prose poems on levure litteraire

http://levurelitteraire.com/rustin-larson-2/

 

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POEM WITH FIRST LINE FROM W.S. MERWIN by Rustin Larson

https://www.pennreview.org/poem-with-first-line-from-ws-merwin

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Lateral Meniscus of the Archangel

http://www.lulu.com/shop/rustin-larson/lateral-meniscus-of-the-archangel/paperback/product-23259250.html

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Links

https://www.cogzine.com/rustin-larson

http://towerjournal.com/fall_2017/fiction/larson.php

http://www.towerjournal.com/spring_2016/poetry/larson.php

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/13/the-philosopher-savant-takes-a-walk

https://conch.es/in-memory-of-belle/

https://conch.es/policemans-heel/

https://conch.es/ghosts/

http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/may-2014-rustin-larson.html

http://www.versedaily.org/2017/pavement5.shtml

http://diodepoetry.com/v3n2/content/larson_r.html

http://levurelitteraire.com/rustin-larson/

http://midwayjournal.com/pavement-13/

http://www.beyond9-11.org/larson.php

http://www.versedaily.org/2016/savantdangeroussun.shtml

http://www.illyashoney.com/A55656/ih.nsf/867a39907311605f8525815300116da9/8f13fe86264752018525815300116541?OpenDocument

http://www.illyashoney.com/A55656/ih.nsf/AllByPoet/AF2EB64230DF330485257EE2000EF234?opendocument

http://www.illyashoney.com/A55656/ih.nsf/AllByPoet/3E82B705FEC50DB785257BF6005DE3D4?opendocument

http://www.illyashoney.com/A55656/ih.nsf/AllByPoet/BE5F06621196BB8D8525815300116542?opendocument

Review of Carrying the Branch

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/01/receiving-giving-peace-in-anthology.html [image error]

Short story: God, Snow, and the Reverend Huhok

http://towerjournal.com/fall_2017/fiction/larson.php

Campfire Thoreau

Which rivers

flow north?

 

River

made of tar,

 

tomatoes,

still water.

 

Sparks dance

river’s surface,

 

plastic jars

of paint

 

celebrating,

burning and looting,

 

Bagalore

torpedoes,

 

black cat

screeching

 

bible verses,

cold basement,

 

mortgage company

47 bucks.

 

A highway,

crowded fragments,

 

blame someone

so young

 

with lanterns.