Knoepfle, John 1979
when the wound speaks
how does it sound
has it authority
a record of achievement
that the leader of a nation
will listen to
– John Knoepfle, “when the wound speaks”
Vintage poster of Two Midwest Poets: John Knoepfle and Lucien Stryk reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.
oshkosh was full of those
damn mosquitoes and st louis
it rained all week in st louis
the heat is peculiar to itself there
– John Knoepfle, “voices at breakfast #2”
Read this article about John Knoepfle from The State Journal:
Poet John Knoepfle celebrates career of words
For Navajo textile weavers, weaving is a sacred art and inserting slight variations to the color or design of patterns, John Knoepfle explained, is a deliberate attempt to avoid perfect symmetry. The weavers thought nothing they could make could attain perfection because only gods and spirits could create perfection.
