A lively collection populated by historical icons, each poem a story
about the potency of imagination, territories, border-crossings of the
mind - among them: the madness of a king who wants to be a swan,
Michelangelo chiselling a heart that beats into his David, Tsar Peter
with his three pet dwarfs acting as generals in the army, Vera Zasulich
who became the world's first woman terrorist, Robinson Crusoe hunting
for the footprints of Friday, Michael Jackson pretending he is Marcel
Marceau as he woos Marlene Dietrich in Paris... From the Introduction:
"A profound point becomes apparent as one explores Azarov's
juxtaposition of lovely bones: his is a classically trained mind just
entered its eighth decade of life, still vibrantly trying to come to
terms with that which we all ultimately face, the terrifying awareness
of our own inescapable date with the black void of non-existence."