Ken Babstock
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Airstream Land Yacht: Poems
Ken Babstock
In his brilliant and long-awaited third collection, award-winning, critically acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. The intellect poses as part junk heap, part life preserver as the speaker of Airstream Land Yacht generates music from paradox and deep-rooted doubt. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship as the speaker attempts to leave our “homes half-sheathed in Tyvek” and “drift into the pain of our neighbours.”
