Knott, Bill 1975
Friday, May 23, 1975
My Favorite Angel
My Favorite Angel
…do not mock us with examples
of breach, morals of escape –
indeed, as further punishment
our cells from side to side…
– Bill Knott, “Stretch”
Vintage poster of Bill Knott’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.
Those scars rooted me. Stigmata stalagmite
I sate at a drive-in and watched the stars
Through a straw while the Coke in my lap went
Waterier and waterier. For days on end or
– Bill Knott, “The Consolations of Sociobiology”
Read this interview with Bill Knott from Book Slut:
Bookslut
An Interview with Bill Knott I knew close to nothing about Bill Knott before we did this interview. The Unsubscriber is his first book in at least a decade, and articles on him are rare.* Yet he seems legendary.
