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On Malice

Ken Babstock

Publisher: Coach House Books

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Blurbs from Peter Gizzi, Ange Mlinko, Simon Armitage and William T. VollmannPoems from this collection have appeared in the Boston Review, among other publications.Ken is generally considered the best mid-career poet in Canada, and although his first four books weren't widely promoted in the US, he has been growing a following. Ken is working on art and music projects connected to this book that will attract much attention. We'll keep you posted as details are confirmed.The first long poem in the book is about Teufelsberg, a hill in Berlin that was made when the Allies tried to bulldoze an SS Officers' Club under construction — they couldn't destroy it so they buried it in rubble, and made it into a mountain. The NSA then put a surveillance station atop it until the Berlin Wall fell, and the station is now a dilapidated squat. This long poem is a sonnet sequence that also uses speech Walter Benjamin documented as his son learned to speak.The second sequence focuses on "perfect blue," the color at the dead center of the color spectrum.
Available since: 09/29/2014.

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