Leviathan With a Hook: Poems
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Johns Hopkins M.A. program, Kimberly Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in English at UC Berkeley. In Leviathan with a Hook, she divides nearly 50 mostly page-length lyrics on spring, fruit, love, Christian symbolism and birds, mainly among three sections ("Angling"; "Seamless, Electric Life"; "Eastward"). Johnson's speaker plumbs a purple fruit ("The weight of the pit centripetal"), gives mouth-to-mouth instructions ("Do not move forward, do not move a finger") and tracks a "Squall Line" "I'm knocking at the door, my turbine. My Gulfstream. Dowsing-rod. Fastness. Wellwater. South-wind" among other explorations and animations.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.