Swivelmount
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Swivelmount

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Swivelmount

About this book

Poems to read in the small hours before dawn, when the sirens start up again.

Swivelmount’s concerns – the collapse of subject and world, eros and law, knowledge and bafflement – gain new urgency as Babstock fiercely reimagines and reassembles the remnants into a viable order. At the core of their kinetic imagery is a freefall into mourning, but also a faith in others: a Babstock poem is the voice next to you in the ER waiting room, becalmed, compassionate, darkly humorous. This is Babstock at his best.

Past Praise:

“This is a poetry that is so uncompromising in how it deals with traditions – of poetic forms, of dictions, of militaristic histories – that it becomes something magnificent: brittle and hard. It will change how you think.” —Juliana Spahr for On Malice

“On Malice is a fascinating and elegiac rebuke to surveillance technologies and its discontents. Ken Babstock is a wonderful and spirited poet. His work is full of musicality, syncopation, wit, and formal acuity.” —Peter Gizzi

“The flavour 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 for Methodist Hatchet

“I felt as if I were reading poems written with a scalpel. Methodist Hatchet swaggers with confidence, intelligence, technique, humour, and that pinioning accuracy of observation we’ve come to expect from Babstock, surely one of the most versatile, switched-on, and linguistically savvy poets of our time.” —Simon Armitage

“Methodist Hatchet is as precise as it is expansive, as complex as it is companionable. It refuses to look away from the unstable nature of self and world and word. That is why Babstock is one of the most exciting lyric poets writing today.” —Sina Queyras, The Globe and Mail for Methodist Hatchet

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Information

Publisher
Coach House Books
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781552454138
eBook ISBN
9781770566507
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Self-Portrait, 1864 Self-Portrait, 1896 Self-Portrait
  6. Edge
  7. Tasked with Designing the Vienna House
  8. Aubade from Security
  9. Homeoteleuton
  10. Category Mistake
  11. Another American Massacre
  12. Fiat Nox
  13. Millstone and Cistern
  14. Husbandry in n4
  15. A Bracelet
  16. Puma Dalglish Silver
  17. Monarch Park
  18. Peak Spader
  19. Chloros
  20. I Am No Pilot, Yet
  21. Dream of the Cerne Abbas Giant
  22. 21
  23. Bonavista
  24. The Sea at L’Estaque
  25. Die Zwitscher-Maschine
  26. Meditation
  27. Milk and Hair
  28. Beached Squid and Ideas of Order
  29. False Ecology
  30. Keeper
  31. Traplines
  32. Milk and Hair: A Translation
  33. Precious Ally
  34. Hexi Telly
  35. The Plural of Unconscious, or Painting the Forth Bridge
  36. ‘, comma,’
  37. And Mars Passed Close to the Sun
  38. Filler Sonnet
  39. Alonso on Carra
  40. Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos
  41. Feeding Pod
  42. In Medias Res
  43. FaceTime
  44. Three Skulls on a Patterned Carpet
  45. By Lacustrine We Meant No Luck at All
  46. Power and Privilege
  47. Domestics as the Origin of Given Names
  48. Stove in the Atelier
  49. Single Cell
  50. North Sea Vespers
  51. Not Not Negative Theology
  52. Grip to Ground Connector
  53. By Torchlight Through a Ventilation Brick
  54. Infinite Jump Glitch
  55. Selected Inventory
  56. Lightwell
  57. Wetterhaus
  58. Velodrome, We’re Not Out Yet
  59. Notes
  60. Acknowledgements
  61. About the Author