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by Bill Knott (Author)
The debut collection from Bill Knott that influenced a generation of poets and rockstars is now back-in-print for the first time in almost 60 years and includes a new introduction by Richard Hell.
"Bill Knott writes stunning poems in which he wires the head to the heart in such surprising ways that the results are truly electrifying. More than anyone of his generation, he shows us just how wild American poetry can be."--Billy Collins
"There's no other poet like Bill Knott."--Yusef Komunyakaa
Author Biography
Bill Knott was born in Carson City, Michigan, in 1940 and died in Bay City, Michigan, in 2014. In the years between, Knott traveled the country--eventually settling in Boston--and proceeded to publish eleven full-length books of poems and was awarded both the Iowa Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship. From French surrealism to the avant-garde and back again, Knott's electrifying verse perpetually innovated the poetic form while avoiding any one school of poetry. Viscerally accessible yet nonetheless a poet's poet inspiring multiple generations of writers and artists, his influence on contemporary American poetry cannot be overstated.
