How to Be Eaten by a Lion Chris Banks BISAC Subject(s): GAMES & ACTIVITIES

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They tap into the poet’s own wildness

articulating materials

Uma Parameswaran (Winnipeg

Her poems are already making waves—several from this collection have received award attention

How to Be Eaten by a Lion Chris Banks BISAC Subject(s): GAMES & ACTIVITIESDescription From the monk who sets himself on fire in a crowded intersection of Saigon ("the familiar corded tendons of his hands, become a bracken of ashes, a carbon twine of burnt"), to the salmon run in British Columbia ("The salmon word for home is glacierdust and once tall trees unlimbed, a taste, no matter where, they know"), Johnson writes of topics varied and eclectic, unified by a focus on moments both declining and revenant. Startling and