Bill Knott has to be the only poet who can claim to have been--for nearly forty years now--at the head of both the avant-garde and the rear-garde of American poetry. Meticulous and formal, yet wildly
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
Star Black is the author of five books of poetry---Waterworn, Balefire, Ghostwood, Double Time, and October for Idas. Her poems have been anthologized in the Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Best Ameri
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
