Poetry. "Grounded by generous humor, graced with charming music, Rick Mullin's latest collection, COELACANTH, mingles the modesty of a man 'in need / of better shoes' with the regal bearing of the artist-as-hero, one gifted with 'a formula for magic, ' the last of an untamed, 'legendary breed.' In a world gone 'austere' and 'ashen, ' in an age when 'mythology has reached a sorry pass, ' we are comforted by Mullin's poems, which share with the famous living-fossil fish of the book's title the power to inspire wonder in things long since thought to have disappeared from the earth." Ernest Hilbert.