The Naomi Poems
Corpse and Beans
$35.68
- Paperback
60 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2025
Summary
The debut collection from Bill Knott that influenced a generation of poets and rockstars is now back-in-print for the first time in almost 60 years and includes a new introduction by Richard Hell.
Bill Knott’s first book, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans, was written under the pen name St. Geraud, the fictional persona of “a virgin and a suicide” who allegedly died two years prior to publication. The Naomi Poems was received to great acclaim and bro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781939568748 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1939568749 |
| Author: | Bill Knott, Richard Hell |
| Publisher: | Black Ocean |
| Imprint: | Black Ocean |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 60 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 190mm |
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Critics Review
“Knott began his career to acclaim and controversy with The Naomi Poems”—The New York Times Book Review
“In The Naomi Poems, his first book, he already knew how to put together a perfect patch of verse“—The New Yorker
“Knott’s poems relentlessly compress language and his lines distill to their throbbing quick.”—Publishers Weekly
“There’s no other poet like Bill Knott.”—Yusef Komunyakaa
“His work is tender, strange, deeply pained, and full of wit. He owes a little coin to Hopkins, a little to several others, no doubt, but Knott, in the end, is sui generis.”—Kim Addonizio
Bill Knott
Bill Knott was born in Carson City, Michigan, in 1940 and died in Bay City, Michigan, in 2014. In the years between, Knott traveled the country—eventually settling in Boston—and proceeded to publish eleven full-length books of poems and was awarded both the Iowa Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship. From French surrealism to the avant-garde and back again, Knott’s electrifying verse perpetually innovated the poetic form while avoiding any one school of poetry. Viscerally accessible yet nonetheless a poet’s poet inspiring multiple generations of writers and artists, his influence on contemporary American poetry cannot be overstated.
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