Glass Lyre Press announces the release of "The Philosopher Savant " by Rustin Larson!
Glass Lyre offers FREE shipping until January 9th.
Readers and fans may order directly from GLASS LYRE PRESS in 2 EASY STEPS!
1. Email your NAME, ADDRESS and desired BOOK TITLE to GlassLyreOrders@gmail.com
2. After the book has been sent out, we email an invoice payable via PayPal or by check for $16.
THE PHILOSOPHER SAVANT is also available through Amazon and other vendors! (Currently available for Prime membership)http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1941783120?keywords=The+Philosopher+Savant+by+Rustin+Larson&qid=1449676540&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
Copies may also be ordered from the author for $16:
Rustin Larson
PO Box 1721
Fairfield, IA 52556
Praise for The Philosopher Savant
Rustin Larson’s exquisitely crafted new collection The Philosopher Savant 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.
The Philosopher Savant is a moving and powerful tribute to the past, bittersweet, funny, and heartbreaking. Themes of absence, loss and abandonment are set against a backdrop of fire and ice, in a landscape whose gardens, blooming with geraniums, lilies, marigolds, lilac, roses, orchids, honeysuckle and thistle, in “gangrened earth,” are reminiscent of Richard Matheson’s novel and Vincent Ward’s movie What Dreams May Come. “These hands / Pick the fire flowers, darkness in part, / Sun in the other. Close the cabinet, / Cover my earth. Shovel on the rich heart,/ Crown star, traveler’s joy, blazing vetch.” Melancholic, unflinching and unexpected, The Philosopher Savant, haunted by the likes of Proust, Crane, Whitman, Shihab Nye, Keats and Shakespeare, upon whose shoulders Larson rests, pulsates like jazz and celebrates life.
—Hélène Cardona, award winning author of Dreaming My Animal Selves / Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales.