Ken Babstock je kanadský básnik, ktorého tvorba sa vyznačuje prenikavým pozorovaním a hlbokým zamyslením nad ľudskou skúsenosťou. Jeho básne skúmajú zložitosť vzťahov a miesta človeka vo svete s osobitým a sugestívnym jazykom. Babstockov štýl je zároveň intímny aj univerzálny, rezonuje s čitateľmi vďaka svojej úprimnosti a poetickému majstrovstvu.
"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."-- Provided by publisher
Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives. In this collection, the pastoral collides with the concrete terrain of motorbikes, prisons, and chainlink to capture our constructed isolation and our buried, yet resonant, connection to the land and seascapes that surround us.
On Malice is watching you--new poems about and by surveillance, from Griffin- winning Ken Babstock.
Babstock opens everything to investigation, rupturing the limitations of the eye and the strictures of the poetic a sonnet is built from a Frisbee game, a love poem inspired by a cow, a gash inhabited by afield of crickets. And throughout his poetic landscape is a solitary bird—watching, passing overhead, biding time, always present. Days into Flatspin is a soaring collection and delivers on every one of Babstock's early promises. He is the poet to watch, the poet whose confidence, range, and measured empathy will have a startling and long-lasting impact upon Canadian letters.