Mean

By Ken Babstock

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887846343
• ISBN13: 9780887846342
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Brutal Emotion and Gripping Apathy

Ken Babstock is poetry reborn. Each piece has the readerpulled in like a voyeuristic bystander at a car crash. Absolutelyfabulous.

A dynamic first book of poems.

Ken Babstock's Mean has all the punch you'd expect from a first book but much more of the polish. Check out his poem "What We Didn't Tell the Medic" about surviving a motorcycle crash, and keep an eye out for this promising young poet.