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Methodist Hatchet

Methodist Hatchet

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Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award

Marooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in Methodist Hatchet cling to what's necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the poem itself -- the idea of a poem -- as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing.

Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, Methodist Hatchet gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken Babstock's playful, fierce, intelligent book.



Author: Ken Babstock
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 04/30/2011
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780887842931
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