I am flying into myself : selected poems, 1960-2014 /
A selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring "thorny genius" (Robert Pinsky).
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Goodbye
- To a dead friend
- The Golden Age
- Poem
- Operation crosszero
- Parable from childhood
- Advice from the experts
- History
- The unsubscriber
- First sight
- Plunge
- Strand
- By the River Baab
- Sunset and noon: Marjory P.
- Bad habit
- Rigor vitus
- Painting vs. poetry
- Death
- Poem (How I lost my pen-name)
- Security
- Humidity's tones
- The day after my Father's death
- Every rift with ore
- My river
- To the emblematic hourglass of my Father's skull
- Alfonsina Storni
- The summoning
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Overnight freeze (Heptasyllabics)
- Going my way
- Elementary lesson
- (The punch and Judy)
- From an old legend
- The closet
- Mrs. Frye and the pencilsharpener
- Knot (Hendecasyllabics)
- My Mother's list of names
- Green-heed
- True story
- Peace (Pascal)
- Islands
- Suite (To Hoku)
- Ant dodger
- Night thought
- Christmas at the orphanage
- To myself
- Poem
- Dear advice columnist
- Quickie
- Widow/widower's winter
- Poem
- The spell
- Fragment
- The D and M's
- Depositioning
- Eviction process
- Naomi poem
- Depressionism
- Another first kiss: to X
- Hair poem
- Bumpy kisses: Poem written to a poet (To R
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- Relics with old blue medicine-type bottle: To X
- Salon poem in Leafgravure
- To Jose Lezama Lima
- Vital signs
- An instructor's dream
- Stumped
- The sculpture (To
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- Priscilla, or the marvels of engineering (A fatal fable)
- Sonnet (To
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- Wishing well
- Lifer (Aka "Happy Birthday")
- Mizu no oto
- Over and over
- Ancient measures
- Minor poem
- Cues
- Windowbeam
- To live by
- My life by me
- Worse
- Decasyllabics
- Fears (Cont.)
- Wait till tonight
- Penny wise
- Intrusions
- Epochs
- Naomi poem (The starfish one)
- Two or three sites from a failed affair
- Mirrorshore
- Bitter thoughts in November
- To the reader
- On a drawing by Charles Tomlinson
- Poem
- For lack of you (To
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- Street
- The patriots
- The dawning
- Snuffed
- My theory
- Another false execution
- Havenot
- Hollywood nightmare
- Mishap message
- Oct
- Nov (Michigan memory #4)
- Poem
- Be
- The return
- Tautological
- Click
- Boston Common, Autumn 2000
- Beddybye
- Sphinx
- Letter to a landscape
- Water
- Poem
- At the museum this week
- Poem
- The retrieval
- Inside outside
- Poem
- From a distance
- Plaza De Loco
- Itinerary
- No wonder
- Pebbles
- Burial scene
- Stress therapy
- Nonsense song
- Poem
- Poem
- On paper
- Prescriptions
- Another hairbrush poem
- Questions
- Aging into the avantgarde
- There's the rub
- Merry-no-round
- The consolations of sociobiology (To
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- Poem
- (Sergey) (Yesenin) speaking (Isadora) (Duncan)
- Poem holding on to
- Naomi poem
- "Quote unquote"
- The I did
- Alternate fates
- The avowal (Hendecasyllabics)
- Hegemony (prosepoem)
- The would-be nonchalant (prosepoem)
- After the burial (prosepoem)
- The alone tonight
- Poem in the cardiac unit.