Liontaming in America

A spiraling, staggering new collection of historical and mythic reinvention (and Elizabeth Willis’s first book with New Directions) “To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one’s relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world,” Elizabeth Willis writes in her visionary work that delves deep into the ancient enchantments and disciplinary displays of the circus. Liontaming in America investigates the utopian aspirations fleetingly enacted in the polyamorous life o