How to Nourish a Cannibal

By Jess Housty

From award-winning, bestselling poet Jess Housty, a collection that offers nourishment through land-based medicine and ancestral wisdom.

Following their critically acclaimed debut Crushed Wild Mint, Jess Housty offers a new collection capturing connections between kinship, ancestral knowledge and spirituality. Drawing on Heiltsuk supernatural beings like B xvbakvalan̓usiwa (the Great Cannibal at the North End of the World), these poems encircle the idea of the cannibal, a complex figure who is at times dangerous but also a generous conduit for spiritual gifts. They tap into the poet's own wildness, love and tenderness--and explore the sweet, agonizing anticipation of shared feasts, both from the land and of the body.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889715181
• ISBN13: 9780889715189
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Nightwood Editions
• Length: 108 Pages
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 7.5"