How to be eaten by a lion / / Michael Johnson

• Autore: Johnson Michael <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Gibsons, British Columbia : , : Nightwood Editions, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (69 pages)
• Disciplina: 811.6
• Soggetto topico: Canadian poetry - 21st century
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Part 1 -- Ornithos -- In Praise of Pain -- Vengeance -- In Praise of the Village Idiot -- The Volcanologist's Lament -- The Volcanologist's Lament II -- Rainmaker -- How to Be Eaten by a Lion -- Bone Lullabies -- Rockhound -- Democracy -- Death by Lightning -- Lucky -- Thunder Eggs -- In Praise of Mud -- Murder -- Dew -- Part 2 -- Tree of Life -- The Church of a Barn's Shadow -- The Church of My Mother's Hands -- The Church of Rot -- The Church of Steel -- The Church of Purslane and Primrose -- The Horologist's Lament -- Hell -- How Water Works -- Sand -- The Bone Temple -- In the Kingdom of Agony -- Parents Waiting for Waves to Return Kids -- Death by Forgetfulness -- How to Carry a Cross -- How to Jump Off a Building -- Part 3 -- Bounty -- Stargazing -- Stargazing II -- Heir -- Ice -- Roadkill -- Death by Chevy -- Bear -- The Calf -- Once a Whaling Station -- Singing to Bones -- The Spit -- The Pull -- In the Language of the Mountain -- In the Language of the Mountain II -- Sitting on a Fallen Cedar -- The Salmon Word for Home -- After This -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 haunting, the poems delve into the ways in which these moments are transformative, beautiful and unexpected. Being eaten by a lion is a gift rather than a loss, an opportunity for grace: “Instead, focus on your life, / its crimson liquor he grows drunk on. / Notice the way the red highlights his face, / how the snub nose is softened, the lips made / fuller; notice his deft musculature, his rapture." Lyrical and rich with visceral imagery, How to Be Eaten by a Lion lingers, exploring the world with an eye for detail and an ear for music.
• Titolo autorizzato: How to be eaten by a lion
• ISBN: 0-88971-069-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150251603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II