<p>The poems in Maya J. Sorini's <em>The Boneheap in the Lion's Den </em>take us inside the intense and often gruesome world of a hospital trauma unit a milieu both surreal and (often) deadly real. Sorini never looks away from the hard stuff-in fact the hard stuff is where she starts-but her gorgeous precise lines and rhythms make this book unputdownable despite the human instinct to look away. I finished this book grateful and changed.&nbsp;-Lynn Melnick</p>