I Am Flying Into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014

by Bill Knott

Book Overview

A selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring, "thorny genius" (Robert Pinsky)

Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest.
They will place my hands like this.
It will look as though I am flying into myself.

For half a century, Bill Knott's brilliant, vaudevillian verse electrified the poetic form. Over his long career, he studiously avoided joining any one school of poetry, preferring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374260672
• ISBN13: 9780374260675
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"