Midlife Action Figure

Banks’s stunning new collection, exploring bold frontiers “ Midlife Action Figure delivers surprise, delight, and sense.” – Quill & Quire , starred review “Poetry is an act of mischief,” Theodore Roethke famously once said, and Chris Banks takes this as his credo in Midlife Action Figure . His subject matter ranges from the familiar to the surreal, taking readers through poems that are both wondrous and strange, heartfelt and humorous, controlled and impatient. Whether calling a tree “an ant