they crackle with keen noticing and the living
and future of poetry in Canada
Just when I think Forage is too devastating
" The only thing that can move that boulder is Grampa's backhoe and when Grampa gets stuck under the bridge it's up to Patrick to save the town
The Rush to Here blows that movement completely apart even though it's not intending to
How to Be Eaten by a Lion Chris Banks they crackle with keen noticingDescription 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