To read Lance Larsen's new book of poems, Backyard Alchemy, is to stand at a kitchen sink somewhere in the universe and gaze through the window at the scene beyond. And such a backyard opens to view! The poems take us from Jakarta to San Jose, from Venice to Santiago and up into Texas, and all over London on a pigeon's-eye tour of Hyde Park, Trafalgar Square, Royal Albert Hall, Hampstead, and beyond. From the first poem of the volume, "The World's Lap":
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