Editorial Reviews:
Synopsis
America's most underated poet. Lots of Knott character. The poems are priceless; so is he. Dry wit, insightful observation, humor. VOLUME ONE: Goodbye, Death, Ant Dodger, Racist Poem, Porokrates, The Enemy, February FourteenthL Freezeframe, Sonnet, My Favorite Word, Wise Sayings, Bumpy Kisses: Poem Written to a Poet, An Obsolescent and His Diety, Poem (How I lost My Pen-name), Naomi Poem, Naomi Poem (The Starfish is One), First Amnesiac's Name, Finale, Lesson, At the Crossroads, The Fate, The Summoning, Haibun: The Juggler to his Audience, (Poem) (Chicago) (1997), Minor Poem, Reading the Gaps, The Closet, Mitts and Gloves, My Mother's List of Names, Naomi Poem, The Keeper, (Face) (Autumn) (En Face), Lifer, FBI Kills Martin Luther King, The Golden Age, Religion, The Advice Columnist, Widow/Widower's Winter, October, My Epitaph, Measures, Ritual, Rigor Vitus, Penny Wise, Fear of Domesticity, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, Sudden Departure, The Sculpture, The Consolations of Sociobiology, Alfonsina Storni, My Plea for Sanctum in the Sculpture Garden of Medusa, Prisoner, Depressionism. VOLUME TWO: Story of Or, First Sight, Clelbration, Dearth Demise, Poem for Location, Relics With Old Blue Medicine-Type Bottle: to X, Dream Amid Bed-Woods, Christmas at the Orphanage, Compact Dusk, (Mural) (Mondo) (Nulfresco), Today's Story (Oh Synethesia!) #4, "Though Music May Have Other Aims Than us" (Wayland), Escape Plan, Unspeakable, Symmetries, Romance (Hendecasyllabics), Haiku, Another First Kiss: To --, The Wishingwell Stanzas Pilgramage, After the Persian Gulf War ( March-June 1991), Two or Three Sites from a Failed Affair, The Man Woh Married His Checkout Lane, Ledgelife, Frozen, Long Distance Affair, The SevenLast Words of Sofia Gubaidulina, Poem for Georg Trakl, The Sonnet in ix, Heritagem Emigrations , (Oct-Nov) Michigan Memory #4, Quickie, Download Quota for a Quand of Sounds, Self Portrait of the Poet as Hyena, and more.