Bill Knott (poet)

William Kilborn Knott (17 February 1940 – 12 March 2014) was an American poet. Born in Carson City, Michigan, US, Knott received his MFA from Norwich University and studied with John Logan in Chicago.

His first collection of poems, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans was published in 1968 and under the name Saint Geraud, whose backstory included a suicide two years prior to the publishing.

Bibliography

Books published by Bill Knott include:

• The Naomi Poems: Book One: Corpse and Beans (1968), Follett, under the pseudonym 'St. Geraud'
• Aurealism: A Study (1969), Salt Mound Press. (chapbook)
• Auto-Necrophilia; The _____ Poems, Book 2 (1971), Big Table Pub., ISBN 0-695-80188-0
• Nights of Naomi (1972), Big Table (chapbook)
• Love Poems to Myself (1974), Barn Dream Press, Boston, ISBN 0-7752-0139-2 (chapbook)
• Rome in Rome (1976), Release Press.
• Selected and Collected Poems (1977), SUN
• Becos (1983), Random House, ISBN 0-394-52924-3
• Outremer (1989), University of Iowa Press, ISBN 0-87745-255-5
• Poems 1963-1988 (1989), University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN 0-8229-5416-8
• Collected Political Poems 1965-1993 (1993) Self-published chapbook
• Sixty Poems of Love and Homage (1994) Self-published chapbook
• The Quicken Tree (1995), Boa Editions, Hardcover ISBN 1-880238-24-1 Softcover ISBN 1-880238-25-X
• Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969-1999 (2000), Boa Editions, ISBN 1-880238-84-5
• The Unsubscriber (2004), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-53014-9
• Stigmata Errata Etcetera (2007), Saturnalia Books, ISBN 978-0-9754990-4-7

References

the enemy 2007

External links

• [[1] Knott's current blog ]
• americanpoems.com - A short biography and several poems by Bill Knott
• [2] - No Many is an Eyelid, on Bill Knott
• Memorious.org - An interview with Bill Knott
• bookslut.com - An interview with Bill Knott