According Bill Knott's blog, the lease on said blog is about to expire and he's not going to renew it. Instead, he's opting to let it vanish.
If you want any pdfs of his books, it looks as though you'd better get them now.
March 5, 2007
Bill Knott: defunct?
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sad. are those blurbs below that post for real?
I looked at it this morning, and it indeed said he was going to let his blog become defunct. I just looked again, and it seems he may have changed his mind.
it looks like he has changed his mind.
he use to include all those anti-blurbs in his self-pubbed mimeo'd books...to complement his anti-poems, i suppose. i think they're all real.
he also used to sign & dedicate the books to more famous poets, though i don't know if he did that as commentary, or if those copies i've seen were actually sent to said poets & then somehow percolated down through the layers.
Bill Knott: godfather of flarf?
The self hatred/compliment-grubbing is SO insufferable. When is he going to grow up? I feel sorry for his shrink.
Knott has paid his dues. Why should he grow up just to please pissy little internet poets?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
morbid comedy, May 23, 2002
Reviewer: "hirofantv" (tomorrow) - See all my reviews
Bill Knott is a great poet. His mind is just so zany. One of my favorite lines of his is "A comma is a period which leaks."
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
a brilliant and essential book, April 11, 2001
Reviewer: J. "J." (USA) - See all my reviews
Every Bill Knott book I have read as been a liberating experience for me. He continues to redefine the "rules" of poetry. And puzzlingly, not many people have heard of him. Those who have read his work, always swear by it. I have yet to meet someone who had something bad to say about Knott's poetry. Unfortunately for all of us, almost all of his books are out of print. However, there are enough gems collected in this edition to illuminate your perception of poetry, and to turn you on to him for life--perhaps leaving you, like me, scrambling to buy his out-of-print works for rediculous prices.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Easily the best poet writing today., March 29, 2001
Reviewer: "nicknameable" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
Even Robert Pinsky says so, and, yet, astoundingly, every time I mention this man's name in mixed, literate company, people scratch their heads.
I'd like to respond to the accusation in the above PW review that his work "bleeds into inanity..." Maybe there's some truth in that, but so what? I find it both comforting and refreshing that words like "warty-poo" crop up in Knott's work. It's nice that in a medium that's so often sobre and bloated with self importance that there's someone out there who seems to be having FUN, for cripe's sake. These "inane" words and phrases add a little childish delight. What other poet will leave you moaning with heart break on one page and giggling with pleasure on the next.
I can't understand why more people who consider themselves "well-read" aren't familiar with Knott. I'm not well-read, and I've read all his books. What's your excuse? Huh?
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Bill Knott's latest book may be his greatest..., August 18, 2000
Reviewer: Evan Simeone (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This collection of poems includes some of Knott's greatest works, including many poems I hadn't read before. To any Bill Knott fans, this is a must have. And to anyone unfamiliar with his poetry, you should immediately check it out; it is a very unique combination of formalism, surrealism and futurism. These isms don't quite cover it, however. He seems to be looking at the entire English lexicon, from ultra-modern slang to archaicisms, when he composes his poems, choosing fresh and surprising combinations of words to fill every line.
Some of the best works in the book are his sonnets. (In the future I would love to see a collection of just his sonnets.) I didn't count them, but there are more than twenty sonnets in the collection and each is excellent. Knott uses the form of (usually) the Petrachan sonnet to make entirely fresh and moving poems again and again. One of the most impressive and entertaining of his sonnets is, "The Sonnet in ix" (which was first published, I believe, in an earlier, truly excellent, Bill Knott BOA edition book entitled, "The Quicken Tree"). The poem is a translation/parody of the Mallerme sonnet. Knott shows off his linguistic prowess by rhyming every line with "ix" without in anyway compromising the poem. It is a feat of shear brilliance.
Congrats to Bill Knott on a great collection of poetry and thank you to BOA for publishing it.
BUY THIS BOOK!
These reviews are "warty-poo" and actually seem scrotilishiously similar in syntax. Anyhoo, my basic point is this: if one writes poetry his entire life, then one can come to hate the whole game quite justifiably. It's rule #26 in the Poetical Rules of Poesy. We won't all be spouting sonnets when cancer dances from anus to brainus...
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