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METHODIST HATCHET
The eagerly anticipated fourth collection from one of Canada's finest poets, acclaimed by Time magazine as "one of the best
things to happen to poetry in Canada."
Marooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, these poems cling to what's necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. The resultant chords of resignation, exhaltation, and despair are bracing. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the poem itself - the idea of a poem - as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing.
Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, Methodist Hatchet gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken Babstock's playful, fierce, intelligent book.
KEN BABSTOCK is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including Airstream Land Yacht, which was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award, won the Trillium Book Award, and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Ken Babstock lives in Toronto.
things to happen to poetry in Canada."
Marooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, these poems cling to what's necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. The resultant chords of resignation, exhaltation, and despair are bracing. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the poem itself - the idea of a poem - as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing.
Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, Methodist Hatchet gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken Babstock's playful, fierce, intelligent book.
KEN BABSTOCK is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including Airstream Land Yacht, which was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award, won the Trillium Book Award, and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Ken Babstock lives in Toronto.
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Published 2011-04-01 by House of Anansi Press |