Tag: Bill Knott
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* contemplating one-sidedness via bill knott
This week’s poem is another gem from Bill Knott. I’m always happy to run into poems that take on an overlooked part of life and refresh it, make it new by simple acknowledgement. In the case of Knott’s poem “Paradise,” the act of reading a book with facing translations is blown up for the meeting…
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* rivering via bill knott
This week’s poem is another Bill Knott gem. What moves me most about it is how it stirs up from mere words a whole fabulistic world from a distance, and, by the end of the poem, brings the world closer to the reader, as close as the glass of water in hand that makes up…
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* one for Bill Knott
Bill Knott’s death last week had me digging through my journals to find this week’s poem. It’s a sonnet I wrote in homage to the man after reading his book The Unsubscriber. I did a post on his work last November (which can be checked out here) in which I shared some of my sketches.…
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* sketchiness with Bill Knott
The above is a snapshot of where I’m at in my sketching. While I would love – and will continue to aspire to – sketch nice scenes of trees (really, just trees, nothing too fancy) I keep coming back to these little efforts that make me smirk. Do people groan at visual puns? I’d really…
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