I wish I could write like Sylvia Linsteadt. To be so young but so wise in the use of words is true genius. I will never forget the image of a disemboweled bird revealing a map of a secret journey in its ribs and arteries. Also, the paintings of Rima Staines imagine a world so strange but oddly familiar. Sylvia weaves her images into an epic narrative . Reading Tatterdemalion is like a weekend hiking through one of my favorite forests.