BALL, Jonathan. The Politics of Knives. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2012. First Edition. 197x127mm. Trade Paperback. New. 95pp. If David Lynch crashed into Franz Kafka in a dark alley, the result might look like The Politics of Knives. Moving from shattered surrealism to disembowelled films, these poems land us in a limbo between the intellectual and the visceral, between speaking and screaming. Finding the language of violence and the violence in language, Jonathan Ball becomes the Stephen King of verse.