Poems deal with friendship, the role of the poet, history, school, nature, language, religion, and personal relationships

The House Party: Poems (Contemporary Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Knox, Caroline

Poetry

Univ of Georgia Pr

The House Party

Poetry. The poet's vital silliness, last seen in To Newfoundland, reappears in unexpected places, from a gothic cottage to a prairie mission, and provides the setting for material drawn from a wide variety of sources, from stale jokes to mathemathical equations. "This poet is a wizard"—James Merrill.

Sleepers Wake

Timken Publishers

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.

A Beaker: New and Selected Poems

United States

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’tfire: 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.

Poetry. This hand-sewn limited edition has a letterpress cover and design influenced by 18th century typesetting and binding techniques. A stunning work of prose and poetry by eminent poet Caroline Knox, NINE WORTHIES operates as a sort of historical novella, telling the story of the life and times of American portraitist Nathaniel Smibert in nine individual portraits interwoven with the perspective of the artist.

Nine Worthies

"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.

To Drink Boiled Snow

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.

Hear Trains

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The House Party: Poems (Contemporary Poetry Series)

The House Party

Sleepers Wake

A Beaker: New and Selected Poems

Quaker Guns

Quaker Guns

Nine Worthies

To Drink Boiled Snow

Hear Trains