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Book Synopsis"A most inquisitive poet who relishes living inside her expansive vocabulary."--C.D. Wright A web of wholly original madhattery, Flemish showcases serious language play and the skill of a master craftsperson. Caroline Knox is writing at the top of her game, and reading her is a pleasure not to be missed. Our font is full of construction- paper fish, made by the church school for us to each take home one of, a reverse tithe. Caroline Knox is the recipient of numerous awards and has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University.
Trade ReviewBy turns funny, esoteric, and absurdist, Flemish is also positively enthralling, an energetic paean to language, the object, and the history of language and of objects. —Seth Abramson, Huffington Post Knox dresses her speakers and her cacophony of subjects (sister, otters, Dickinson, Mary Wesley) in whatever clothes history hands them (or she conjures up), letting them act out their roles on a spindle of wordplay and pathos. —Publishers Weekly
Table of ContentsContents He Was a Chartist Stove Seasoning Key Flemish Giant Culinary Otters Wildwood Flower You Harley Lyric His Mistress’s Rights He Doth Defend tion Composite Scottish Fleet Pattern Number Twenty-Four They Aragon Marston Joan of Arc High The Eaves Subjects Singing in Yoghurt At midnight the sound Coffee Cantata Where If you are nearsighted Kevin The font is full of fish The Scottish Play He Lives in Bayonne Society Year after Year I’m going to Rupert’s Land Notes Acknowledgments
