Ken Babstock has been hailed as the new face of Canadian poetry, nay, poetry in general! And while some of his poetry practically comes right off the page, those poems are littered among lesser, run of the mill works that makes it difficult to see why this praise is so lavishly heaped upon him.
There doesn't seem to be much of an editing process to Mean. Why else would absolute gems be heaped alongside poems that should have never made it past the editor's pen? While Babstock is clearly talented, Mean is a rough, uneven work that takes patience to work through.
2.5/5
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