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.--$cProvided by publisher.
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- C811/.54
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- 23
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- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 1552454134 9781770566507
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- PR9199.3.B23
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- S95 2020eb
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- 1 electronic text (127 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- For Helen who is everywhere in these lines 5
- When its there its there and when its not its not and basta. 7
- Die Zwitscher-Maschine 9
- Self-Portrait 1864 Self-Portrait 1896 Self-Portrait 13
- Rocks At Fontainebleau 15
- Edge 19
- Tasked with Designing the Vienna House 20
- Aubade from Security 22
- Homeoteleuton 23
- Category Mistake 26
- Another American Massacre 27
- Fiat Nox 28
- Scheisskerle 28
- Millstone and Cistern 30
- Husbandry in 4 31
- A Bracelet 32
- Puma Dalglish Silver 33
- Monarch Park 34
- Peak Spader 36
- Chloros 38
- I Am No Pilot Yet 41
- Dream of the Cerne Abbas Giant 42
- Bonavista 48
- The Sea at LEstaque 49
- Die Zwitscher-Maschine 51
- Meditation 53
- Milk and Hair 54
- Beached Squid and Ideas of Order 56
- False Ecology 57
- Keeper 58
- Modern Domestic Medicine 58
- Traplines 60
- Guardian wicked smahwt 60
- Milk and Hair A Translation 62
- Precious Ally 63
- So young 63
- Hexi Telly 65
- What is it you see when you look 65
- Any flame like mine then would do. Any blue. 65
- Ive four hours remaining. The scatterings a stand-in. It happens above you. 65
- These pictures you conjure while looking theyre strange 65
- Like a lantern as in Dante. 65
- That is gone. Thats all gone. Whats left 65
- So take me with you into the desert of civility. 66
- The Plural of Unconscious or Painting the Forth Bridge 67
- And Mars Passed Close to the Sun 75
- Nature 75
- Nature 77
- Filler Sonnet 78
- Alonso on Carra 79
- Clotho Lachesis Atropos 81
- The Flax Barn at Laren 81
- Strand Esel 81
- Feeding Pod 84
- In Medias Res 86
- FaceTime 87
- Three Skulls on a Patterned Carpet 88
- By Lacustrine We Meant No Luck at All 90
- Power and Privilege 93
- Night of the Hunter 93
- Domestics as the Origin of Given Names 95
- Stove in the Atelier 96
- The Waves 97
- Single Cell 99
- When you arrived lit up you were machine. 99
- I want to help you 99
- North Sea Vespers 101
- Not Not Negative Theology 102
- Love 102
- Grip to Ground Connector 105
- By Torchlight Through a Ventilation Brick 107
- Infinite Jump Glitch 109
- Plague 109
- Selected Inventory 110
- Cimex lectularius 111
- Lightwell 114
- Wetterhaus 116
- Velodrome Were Not Out Yet 117
- Shorter Oxford English 123
- Mitternachtsfuchs 123
- The West End Pheonix 123
- Die Zwitscher-Maschine 123
- Ken Babstock 127
- Methodist Hatchet Mean Days into Flatspin Airstream Land Yacht On Malice 127
