num_pages: 136
description: Eavesdroppers fearthe hermit's soliloquy.Wake up, wound, the knife said.--from "To Live By"Bill Knott's poetic manner--surreal yet vernacular, outrageous and tender--is unlike anything in contemporary American verse. In The Unsubscriber , he investigates cloning laboratories and spaceships, cemeteries and battlefields, talks to Damocles and pokes fun at Hamlet, witnesses the moments before a seduction, and charts maps in the stars and in forests. Knott tells fables, poses questions, shadows spies, and breathes new life into poetry's oldest love and war. The Unsubscriber is the first new book in a decade by a fiercely iconoclastic American poet deserving of a wide audience.
language: English
title: The Unsubscriber: Poems
titlecomplete: The Unsubscriber: Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 89
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux