{"product_id":"on-malice-9781552453049","title":"On Malice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith poems on perfect blue and a sonnet sequence situated on a derelict NSA surveillance station on a Berlin hill, \u003ci\u003eOn Malice\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou finish reading it. You cannot\u003cbr\u003efinish reading it. Ice caught\u003cbr\u003ein the can, later, the well. What\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eshall I be worried about, \u003cbr\u003ethe coward well and the ice does\u003cbr\u003esuch a lot. They know nothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eof cantilevered blown-out shells\u003cbr\u003ewho feed their worry\u003cbr\u003elike veal barns. The dome's aerial\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003emy lodestar and icon, the squirrel\u003cbr\u003eat dusk in the post-informational gloaming\u003cbr\u003ecan never not finish reading it as song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKen Babstock\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMethodist Hatchet\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize. His previous titles, \u003ci\u003eMean\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDays into Flatspin\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAirstream Land Yacht\u003c\/i\u003e, hold nominations for the Governor General's Award and the Winterset Prize. Poems from this book have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552453049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ken Babstock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51230718329013,"sku":"9781552453049","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_36e85c30-4194-4c50-ab13-6f257ed63b2a.jpg?v=1750169890","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/on-malice-9781552453049","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}