Bill Knott (poet)
William Kilborn Knott (born 1940 in Carson City, Michigan, US) is an American poet. Knott received his MFA from Norwich University and studied with John Logan in Chicago.
His first collection of poems, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans was published in 1968 and under the name Saint Geraud, whose backstory included a suicide two years prior to the publishing.[1][2]
Bibliography
Books published by Bill Knott include[3][4]:
- The Naomi Poems: Book One: Corpse and Beans (1968), Follett, under the pseudonym 'St. Geraud'
- Aurealism: A Study (1969), Salt Mound Press. (chapbook)
- Auto-Necrophilia; The _____ Poems, Book 2 (1971), Big Table Pub., ISBN 0695801880
- Nights of Naomi (1972), Big Table (chapbook)
- Love Poems to Myself (1974), Barn Dream Press, Boston, ISBN 0775201392 (chapbook)
- Rome in Rome (1976), Release Press.
- Selected and Collected Poems (1977), SUN
- Becos (1983), Random House, ISBN 0394529243
- Outremer (1989), University of Iowa Press, ISBN 0877452555
- Poems 1963-1988 (1989), University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN 0822954168
- Collected Political Poems 1965-1993 (1993) Self-published chapbook
- Sixty Poems of Love and Homage (1994) Self-published chapbook
- The Quicken Tree (1995), Boa Editions, Hardcover ISBN 1-880238-24-1 Softcover ISBN 1-880238-25-x
- Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969-1999 (2000), Boa Editions, ISBN 1880238845
- The Unsubscriber (2004), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0374530149
- Stigmata Errata Etcetera (2007), Saturnalia Books, ISBN 978-0-9754990-4-7
References
- ^ Adam Travis (2005). "An Interview with Bill Knott". http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_02_004302.php. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
- ^ Saint Geraud, Foreword by Paul Carroll (1968). The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans. Chicago: Big Table Publishing Company. pp. 6–14.
- ^ Hamilton, Ian (1996). The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 279.
- ^ "Books of the poet: Bill Knott". PoemHunter. http://www.poemhunter.com/bill-knott/books/. Retrieved 2007-04-13.
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