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I Am Flying into Myself

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bill KnottPublish date:2/6/2018Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374537524ISBN-10:374537526UPC:9780374537524Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC2M2Q1JP8

I Am Flying into Myself

A selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring, "thorny genius" (Robert Pinsky)

Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest.

They will place my hands like this.
It will look as though I am flying into myself.

For half a century, Bill Knott's brilliant, vaudevillian verse electrified the poetic form. Over his long career, he studiously avoided joining any one school of poetry,...



Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374537524ISBN-10:374537526UPC:9780374537524Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC2M2Q1JP8

Bill Knott was born in Carson City, Michigan, in 1940 and died in Bay City, Michigan, in 2014. His first book, The Naomi Poems, was written under the pen name St. Geraud (1940-1966) and published to great acclaim in 1968. Between 1968 and 2004, he published eleven full-length books of poems. He taught at Emerson College in Boston for twenty-five years.

Thomas Lux (1946-2017) published fourteen...
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Bill Knott

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