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On Malice Paperback - 2014

by Ken Babstock


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Ken Babstock is a wonderful and spirited poet, his work is full of musicality, syncopation, wit, and formal acuity, it's all good.--Peter Gizzi

The flavor of this poetry is complex--it will have to be consumed in small amounts like a sipping tequila. It inebriates quickly. It imparts a convivial brilliance to life. And it is not without its sinister edge.--Ange Mlinko

With poems on perfect blue and a sonnet sequence situated on a derelict NSA surveillance station on a Berlin hill, On Malice assembles evacuated forms, polysemy, prayer, and perverse chatter into poems that enact our paranoia. Channeling Walter Benjamin's son, William Hazlitt, John Donne, and Dick Cheney, they are lyric in their sonic and affective register but coldly methodological in their invented structures and illusions.

You finish reading it. You cannot
finish reading it. Ice caught
in the can, later, the well. What

shall I be worried about,
the coward well and the ice does
such a lot. They know nothing

of cantilevered blown-out shells
who feed their worry
like veal barns. The dome's aerial

my lodestar and icon, the squirrel
at dusk in the post-informational gloaming
can never not finish reading it as song

Ken Babstock is the author of Methodist Hatchet, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize. His previous titles, Mean, Days into Flatspin, and Airstream Land Yacht, hold nominations for the Governor General's Award and the Winterset Prize. Poems from this book have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

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  • Title On Malice
  • Author Ken Babstock
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Coach House Books, Toronto
  • Date 2014
  • ISBN 9781552453049 / 1552453049
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.4 in (20.07 x 12.45 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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  • Quill & Quire, 12/01/2014, Page 69

About the author

Ken Babstock's most recent collection, Methodist Hatchet, won the Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. His previous titles include Mean, Days into Flatspin and Airstream Land Yacht, which have been been nominated for the Griffin, the Governor General's Award, and the Winterset Prize. His poems have been translated into six languages and anthologized in the Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. After a year's residency in Berlin, Ken is again living in Toronto.
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