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Book Synopsis"One might argue that nothing is sacred in Caroline Knox's work, but it would be truer to its spirit to say that everything is sacred here-and all are welcome."-Rebecca Frank, Boston Review "Caroline Knox reminds us how whangy and interesting it all is."-C.D. Wright "She is often obscure, but her allusions are as much a sign of camaraderie as of scholarly pretension, her poems a pert crystallization impossible in more narrative poetry."-The New Yorker Caroline Knox once again demonstrates that she is a master at lyrical billiards, sending all levels of diction in surprising and comedic directions. No subject matter is off-limits for her examination. Her vast range of experiment is exciting, and the ensuing poems are games, dreams, and riddles. This collection is art on the page for the eye and the ear. From "Poem": Of milk, these persons make the butter until have what are cheeses when they're at home; of cheese, hors d'oeuvres of sandwich are manufactured sandwich islands. The workforce custom subsume draft cereal. Forasmuch as we are not birdlike, we pig out, crikey, put away comestibles big-time. Caroline Knox's most recent publications are Flemish (Wave Books, 2013), and Nine Worthies (Wave Books, 2010). Quaker Guns (Wave Books, 2008) received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Six poems are anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, Second Edition. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council (1996, 2006), The Fund for Poetry, and the Yale/Mellon Visiting Faculty Program.
Trade ReviewEach poem operates with an elastic sense of what can be mentioned, as when Ortelius, Copernicus, Mark Strand, and the kids' game Marco Polo appear together in "The World." Poetry itself is never beyond the scope of consideration: it is in the spotlight, and poems are made visible to the reader. —Alexandria Peary, Boston Review Knox's poems are conversational, irreverent (while also full of sweet reverence), and playful. —Arielle Greenberg, American Poetry Review Knox...mimics the sensation of falling down a crystalline rabbit hole in her disparate, sweeping, and intellectual ninth collection. —Publishers Weekly
Table of ContentsTo Drink Boiled Snow The world All Good When I was about your age, Love Poem Plain Poem Song Mozart Slalom Dave the Potter Made Me Islands and Bridges Poem Beginning with a Line by Milton An Onion The Adventure of the Dancing Men They had had it in mind Plate 4 The Erasers Poem Difficult Evening We Sang “Fire! Fire! My Heart!” Era sure Boustrophedon Poem for Other Poems That escalator Make your laziness be real rest Morgan le Fay Objects Added Concern with External Nature Title not given Why would the Minoans Notes Acknowledgments
