How to Be Eaten by a Lion Chris Banks in almost every stanza

in almost every stanza

[T]he words jump off the page and straight into your heart

or lending a narrative to one of Dennis Oppenheim's conceptual sculptures

the Gold Rush

from a cooler in its unlit aisles

How to Be Eaten by a Lion Chris Banks in almost every stanzaDescription 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