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Wave Books Hear Trains
In Hear Trains, Caroline Knox seeks further contexts for her striking diction and syntax to establish new forms of understanding. With her signature wit and erudition, she plumbs the depths of etymology, reading, art, and nature, of comma splices, cyanotypes, cupboards, and poppits, lashing together the unlikeliest subjects by the very language they have always shared and delighting readers with a real world made startlingly new, fulsomely re-enriched.
£17.99
Wave Books A Beaker: New and Selected Poems
A Beaker: New and Selected Poems shows Knox’s particular insistence on painterly abstraction, linguistic goofiness, and formal rigor. Free-wheeling allusive artifacts, Knox’s poems are visually precise, at times ornate, and often humorous. Selected from the poems of her three previous collections, and including a full complement of new poems, A Beaker places Knox among the most important and original poets of her generation.
£9.99
Wave Books Quaker Guns
With the adventurousness of Ashbery and the gregariousness of Billy Collins, no one's bag of tricks is as bottomless as Caroline Knox's. They're Quaker guns, a creative ruse, the kind you couldn't and wouldn't fire: they're flotsam, jetsam, or any old trees, ships' logs. They're broken masts. They're the Friends of the Friends. Caroline Knox is the winner of the 2005 Maurice English Award and the author of six collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.
£9.99
Wave Books He Paves the Road With Iron Bars
- Knox's last collection was reviewed in The New Yorker, among other venues. - Knox is widely respected both in her generation and among a younger generation of poets. - Except for A Beaker: New and Selected Poems (Verse Press, 2002), this is the only collection of Knox’s work currently in print. - Knox has taught at Harvard and at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
£9.15
Wave Books Flemish
"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.
£14.99