Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives. In this collection, the pastoral collides with the concrete terrain of motorbikes, prisons, and chainlink to capture our constructed isolation and our buried, yet resonant, connection to the land and seascapes that surround us.
Ken Babstock Libros
Ken Babstock es un poeta canadiense cuya obra se caracteriza por una aguda observación y una profunda reflexión sobre la experiencia humana. Sus poemas exploran las complejidades de las relaciones y el lugar de la humanidad en el mundo con una voz distintiva y evocadora. El estilo de Babstock es a la vez íntimo y universal, resonando con los lectores a través de su franqueza y destreza poética.
Babstock opens everything to investigation, rupturing the limitations of the eye and the strictures of the poetic a sonnet is built from a Frisbee game, a love poem inspired by a cow, a gash inhabited by afield of crickets. And throughout his poetic landscape is a solitary bird—watching, passing overhead, biding time, always present. Days into Flatspin is a soaring collection and delivers on every one of Babstock's early promises. He is the poet to watch, the poet whose confidence, range, and measured empathy will have a startling and long-lasting impact upon Canadian letters.