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Knox’s ninth collection of poetry, an ever surprising delight, masterful in its dedication to play and experiment.
List of contents
To Drink Boiled Snow
The world
All Good
When I was about your age,
Love Poem
Plain Poem
Song
Mozart
Slalom
Dave the Potter Made Me
Islands and Bridges
Poem Beginning with a Line by Milton
An Onion
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
They had had it in mind
Plate 4
The Erasers
Poem
Difficult Evening
We Sang ¿Fire! Fire! My Heart!¿
Era sure
Boustrophedon
Poem for Other Poems
That escalator
Make your laziness be real rest
Morgan le Fay
Objects
Added Concern with External Nature
Title not given
Why would the Minoans
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the author
Caroline Knox's most recent publications are To Drink Boiled Snow (Wave Books, 2015), 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. He Paves the Road with Iron Bars, published by Verse Press in 2004, won the Maurice English Award 2005 for a book by a poet over 50. A Beaker: New and Selected Poems appeared from Verse Press in 2002. Her previous books are The House Party and To Newfoundland (Georgia 1984, 1989), and Sleepers Wake (Timken 1994).
Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Boston Review, Harvard Magazine, Massachusetts Review, New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry (whose Bess Hokin Prize she won), TriQuarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, and Yale Review. Her poems have been in Best American Poetry (1988 and 1994), and on Poetry Daily. 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. She was the judge for the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America in Spring 2003, and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard in 2003-2004. With Matthea Harvey and Peter Gizzi, she was a judge of the James Laughlin Award 2007.
