![]() ![]() lest poison be their fate”) rub shoulders with modern colloquialisms (“then boogie on back to their caves”), not always to pleasing effect. They know to choose carefully the ones they eat. The rambling free verse is a collage, too, in which medieval-sounding expressions (“Dragons love mushrooms. The creatures recall Fabergé eggs, gilded, bejeweled and adorned with calligraphic swirls and coils. Succeeding spreads show more dragons, their claws, snouts, wings and tails made up of rainbow hues of beetles, seashells, leaves, mushrooms-even flags of the world. “Dragons love flowers, their colors and perfumes,” he writes, as the corresponding spread shows a dragon composed of flaming parrot tulips and sunset-colored birds of paradise. ![]() ) dragon collages, made up of repeated and sometimes distorted images, take center stage in this work. Dramatic and surreal, Parlato's ( The World That Loved Books ![]()
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