Airstream Land Yacht
0-88784-740-4 • 978-0-88784-740-0
“As Auden was to the English 1930s, so too is Ken Babstock to the Canadian 2000s — the key figure of the under-4os generation…. “
— Globe and Mail
“… a thrilling, valuable book of verse.”
— Vancouver Sun
Poems of conscience collide with poems about consciousness in Babstock’s eagerly awaited third collection. While Airstream Land Yacht testifies to the beauty of everyday experience, these poems also introduce an expansiveness of inquiry, marrying linguistic bravado with quiet grace. The clutch of love poems within are key to unlocking the larger collection — itself a love song to the wordless world.
Days into Flatspin
0-88784-658-0 • 978-0-88784-658-8
“Babstock is a god of small things, equipped with a generous, sober, prodding intelligence.” — The Gazette
“Nothing seems ordinary when filtered through [Babstock’s] metaphoric vision.” — Toronto Star
Diving into and then beyond what is seen or “the coma of looking” as one poem calls it, Babstock veers into the inner core of things, animals, and places through portals that exist all around us. He opens everything to investigation, rupturing the limitations of the eye and the strictures of the poetic form.
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