Leviathan with a Hook

Larger than Life 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. (June)