Bill Knott is still around and writing, with a couple of selected volumes
forthcoming. He currently teaches at Emerson College in Boston. He
published his first book in the 60s on Paul Carroll's Big Table Books
imprint (entitled Corpse and Beans, and under the pseudonym Saint Geraud).
He's often pegged a surrealist, but his poems are strange in ways not
necessarily as programmatic as those of the original surrealists.
Since there have been a couple of poems set in Chicago posted on
this list, here's another one..., this one by Knott and from his first
book
(POEM)(CHICAGO)(1967)
If you remember this poem after reading it
Please go to Lincoln Park the corner of Dickens Street and sit
On the bench there where M and I kissed one night for a few minutes
It was wonderful even if you forget
Most of his books, in my opinion, are worth tracking down. I'm sure others
know more than I about Knott, so I'll let them fill in the many blanks.
David Zauhar
University of Illinois at Chicago
"i have a city to cover with lines"
--d.a. levy
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