{"product_id":"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 finish reading it. Ice caught in 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 such a lot. They know nothing\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eof cantilevered blown-out shells who feed their worry like veal barns. The dome's aerial\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003emy lodestar and icon, the squirrel at dusk in the post-informational gloaming can 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035527004400,"sku":"9781552453049","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552453049_p0.jpg?v=1763753028","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552453049","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}