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Bill Knott

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born

Carson City, Michigan, The United States

gender

male

website

http://billknottpoetry.blogspot.com/

genre

Poetry

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Bill Knott spent most of his youth in Chicago. He also taught poetry at Columbia College in Chicago in the early 1970s.

His first book was The Naomi Poems, published in 1968, under the pseudonym Saint Giraud. His many books of poetry include Auto-necrophilia, Love Poems To Myself, Rome in Rome, The Quicken Tree, Selected and Collected Poems, and Laugh At the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969–1999.

He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003. He is currently an associate professor of English at Emerson College in Boston.

In recent years, he has several times made all of his collected poems available for free online.

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Books by Bill Knott

Average rating: 4.33 · 258 ratings · 17 reviews · 28 distinct works

	The Unsubscriber 4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Quicken Tree 4.16 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems, 1969-1999 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans 4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	Poems, 1963-1988 (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Becos: Poems 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Auto-Necrophilia; The----Poems, Book 2 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Stigmata Errata Etcetera by Bill Knott, Star Black (Illustrator), Mark Doty (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Selected and Collected Poems 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Outremer 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: