Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock’s most recent collection, Methodist Hatchet (Anansi, 2011), won The Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry and was a finalist for The Trillium Book Award. His previous collections of poetry include, Mean (1999), Days into Flatspin (2001), and Airstream Land Yacht (2006), which was a finalist for The Griffin Prize for Poetry, The Governor General’s Literary Award, and The Winterset Prize, and winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. His new collection, On Malice, will appear Fall, 2014 from Coach House Books.

Poetry
From ‘Perfect Blue Distant Objects’
Ken Babstock

It suggests its own passage over a plain, the passage
                                                                                           of nations
into another’s occupied day—time, lovers
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