{"product_id":"9781770564015","title":"On Malice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe fairground screamed. The mountains\u003cbr\u003e and valley were gone. The fire was gone\u003cbr\u003e too. The hanging ‘because’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ewas gone too. The men were away\u003cbr\u003e and my heart already dead\u003cbr\u003e and the fairground monkey dead in my mouth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA spectre haunts a derelict nsa surveillance station on a hill in Berlin. Our posthumous selves cry to us from the Cloud. We’ve internalized the panopticon, but it still feels good to buy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Malice\u003c\/em\u003e assembles evacuated forms, polysemy, undirected prayer and meta-chatter into a quartet of delirious song, a diorama of our new, totalized and ubiquitous armour. Channelling Spicer and Berryman, data-mining and inverting Hazlitt, Donne and Walter Benjamin’s son, these extended ghost-essays are lyric in their sonic and affective register but coldly methodological in their invented structures and repurposed illusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \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.\u003cbr\u003e —Peter Gizzi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\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.'\u003cbr\u003e —Ange Mlinko\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135345344752,"sku":"9781770564015","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770564015_p0.jpg?v=1763707493","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770564015","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}