The Mansion of Happiness

Alien abduction, reincarnation, earthquake, love, death, middle age, children, the end of the worldJon Loomiss new collection covers a lot of ground. From the quiet and contemplative lyric voice of The Past and If I Come Back to the wild, unrepentant personae of Jon Loomis, Inc. and Shut Up and Eat Your Jellyfish, these are poems as necessary as they are brave. The Mansion of Happiness is a love song to the teetering present, facing an ominous future with courage, candor, and mordant humor.