The Lean Out podcast has covered lots of books in recent years. We have never covered a poetry book. But all it took was one read of a striking new collection of poems for me to know that I had to have its author on the show. The Canadian writer Stephen Marche said it best when he described this collection: “Like supremely eloquent graffiti written on the wall of a magnificent palace, except the palace is the world, and the world is on fire.” 

Michael Lista is a Canadian essayist, investigative journalist, and poet. His new book is Barfly and Other Poems.

Michael Lista is my guest, today on Lean Out. Transcript to come for paid subscribers.

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