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Overview

With the adventurousness of Ashbery and the gregariousness of Billy Collins, no one’s bag of tricks is as bottomless as Caroline Knox’s.

They’re Quaker guns, a creative ruse, the kind you couldn’t and wouldn’t
fire: they’re flotsam, jetsam, or any old trees, ships’ logs.
They’re broken masts. They’re the Friends of the Friends.

Caroline Knox is the winner of the 2005 Maurice English Award and the author of six collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.

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Overview

With the adventurousness of Ashbery and the gregariousness of Billy Collins, no one’s bag of tricks is as bottomless as Caroline Knox’s.

They’re Quaker guns, a creative ruse, the kind you couldn’t and wouldn’t
fire: they’re flotsam, jetsam, or any old trees, ships’ logs.
They’re broken masts. They’re the Friends of the Friends.

Caroline Knox is the winner of the 2005 Maurice English Award and the author of six collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

With erudite yet accessible wit, Knox (He Paves the Road with Iron Bars) continues her exploration of just how far one can actually stretch the definition of poetry before it breaks. Like contemporary cabinets of wonders, the poems in this sixth collection display linguistic oddities, both archaic and everyday, quirky historical facts, unlikely literary references and richly extravagant diction ("O/ for a bombazine cloak the color of plankton!"). Her wildness, however, is tempered by a serious commitment to fixed forms-as one of her poems reports, this book contains "two sonnets, two haiku,/ a sestina, an homage/ to George Herbert, some tercets,/ a masque, two translations,/ two erasure poems, an elegy,/ a recipe, a song, an ABC,/ an eclogue, a canzone,/ a group of rubayyat, and other poems." But this is a far cry from New Formalism. Knox is our most irreverent poet to revere history in its various forms. (Apr.)

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School Library Journal

The best description of this book occurs midway through the long poem, "Hooke's Law": "The book you are reading,/Quaker Guns, contains the/sequence you are reading,/two sonnets, two haiku,/a sestina, an homage/to George Herbert,/some tercets,/a masque, two translations/two erasure poems, an elegy,/a recipe, a song, an ABC,/an eclogue, a canzone, a group of rubayyat, and other poems." Knox's games disarm the reader just as Quaker guns (phony cannons) are meant to discourage pirates. An eccentric formalist scribbler, like a cross between May Swenson and Archie of cockroach fame, Knox (A Beaker) can't resist her own wit: "I'm going to Italy/on Xanax Airlines./I'm going to Pisa/to sojourn in a place." Her engine runs on daffy rhymes, like Nerfand surf, but she is nothing if not serious: "I wanted to make a pair of andirons/for our fireplace, so I pulled down the copper/gutters along the eaves, which I boiled up/with some brass doorknobs and tin cans." This fantasy of making begins in hope and ends in dismay: the poet is aware of the danger of clever word games. But she plays them brilliantly. Highly recommended.
—Ellen Kaufman

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781933517278
  • Publisher: Wave Books
  • Publication date: 4/1/2008
  • Pages: 70
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 9.60 (h) x 0.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Caroline Knox is the winner of the 2005 Maurice English Award and the author of six collections of poetry, most recently He Paves the Road with Iron Bars (Verse Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Paris Review, and elsewhere. She has received awards from the NEA, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Poetry magazine.

Table of Contents

Dress Pattern with an Interior 1

My Husband Sat Up 2

A Dance 4

We Beheld Two Nebulas 6

My Anorak 9

Quaker Guns 10

Andirons 11

The Title 13

Dreyken 14

Sestina at Yin Yu Tang 16

It Was Christmas 18

Hooke's Law 20

Who'll Buy 26

Line Poem 27

Source Text 28

Coordinates 30

The Owl and the Lark 32

Oh 35

Salad 37

A Lot of the Days I Wake Up 39

Oldest Dog 40

Nerf 41

Canzone delle Preposizioni 44

Title Law Is Pleasant 47

Wind Turbine 48

Spinoza 49

Face-Masque 50

Goth Plaint 56

Newfoundland Dog Ears Haiku 57

Erasure Erasure 58

Fox 60

Song 61

Dove 62

A Parallelogram 64

Text Panel 65

Notes 67

Acknowledgments 69

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