Crazy Star

In a voice both unflinching and deeply compassionate, Rustin Larson has created a luminous, deadly serious, yet self-deprecating & quietly outrageous collection of poetry. Stylistically diverse, This book gives the reader compelling reason to be attentive to those extraneous forces that would define us.

Rustin Larson’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, Poetry East, The Atlanta Review and other magazines. Larson was a featured Iowa Poet at The Des Moines National Poetry Festival in 2002 and has been featured on the public radio programs Live from Prairie Lights and Voices from the Prairie. Currently, Larson teaches in the English department at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids and lives in Fairfield, Iowa with his wife Caroline and their three daughters.