Review of Coelacanth Poems by Rick Mullin

Most good poets content themselves with exercising their godlike powers of creation and concomitant megalomaniacal tendencies with little miracles of artistry that we ooh and aah over or perhaps in rare instances (if we share their ink-stained inglorious propensities) our visages simply turn a bright envious green before fully combusting in despair. Rick Mullin in his new book Coelacanth goes one step beyond these other Babel builders. He raises the dead.  For more of my review go here:  http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2013/08/coelacanth-poems-by-rick-mullin.html