Eavesdroppers fear the hermit's soliloquy. Wake up, wound, the knife said. --from "To Live By" Bill Knott's poetic manner--surreal yet vernacular, outrageous and tender--is unlike anything in contemporary American verse. In "The Unsubscriber," he investigates cloning laboratories and spaceships, cemeteries and battlefields, talks to Damocles and pokes fun at Hamlet, witnesses the moments before a seduction, and charts maps in the stars and in forests. Knott tells fables, poses questions, shadows spies, and breathes new ...
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Eavesdroppers fear the hermit's soliloquy. Wake up, wound, the knife said. --from "To Live By" Bill Knott's poetic manner--surreal yet vernacular, outrageous and tender--is unlike anything in contemporary American verse. In "The Unsubscriber," he investigates cloning laboratories and spaceships, cemeteries and battlefields, talks to Damocles and pokes fun at Hamlet, witnesses the moments before a seduction, and charts maps in the stars and in forests. Knott tells fables, poses questions, shadows spies, and breathes new life into poetry's oldest stories: love and war. "The Unsubscriber" is the first new book in a decade by a fiercely iconoclastic American poet deserving of a wide audience.
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Seller's Description:
Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex Library. Typical library stampings, stickers and markings. Moderate wear. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 122 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition, first printing. Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Binding is tight and square; the corners of the covers are bruised. Dust jacket shows a little light edgewear. 122pp.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Reading Copy with publisher's promotional material laid in. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the library of poet and critic William Logan.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Inscribed by Author(s) Signed & inscribed by Bill Knott to the previous owner on the front free end page. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket.
