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Masterful poems that guide readers through the interconnections of natural and readerly life as it is powerfully expressed in the dynamic resonances of language.
List of contents
Pomander
I wouldn’t mow the field Hear Trains
Bone Ghazal
Sun God appears
Cold Blob
Who is going to tell you Code Switch
Blue Poem
“What is in this cupboard?” Who
Sonnet
Manganese
Sitting
The new owners
Kimono
Back and Forth
Transept
Look,
Latin Poetry
Double-dare
Polis
Poppits
Mirror
Helen
Nuthatch Song
Saints Partying
Poem
A Rubric
Tarragon
Two middle-aged springer spaniels A wide border
Watershed
Tex Tiles
People with Occupations Glorious Apollo
Cataract
Pheasant-eye
A completely rotted shed
Acknowledgments
About the author
Caroline Knox's most recent publications are
Hear Trains (Wave Books, forthcoming 2019),
To Drink Boiled Snow (Wave Books, 2015),
Nine Worthies (Wave Books, 2010), and
Flemish (Wave Books, 2013).
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).
Summary
Masterful poems that guide readers through the interconnections of natural and readerly life as it is powerfully expressed in the dynamic resonances of language.
