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humanodon · 3905 days ago · link · · parent · post: Writers of Hubski: How do you get over your crushing disdain for your own work?

Ah, nothing to be sorry about. He was old. And often mean and a little crazy, but he really knew his shit. I loved learning from him and grateful that I had the opportunity. If you haven't already, you should check out his stuff. I know we were having fun with misconceptions about poetry the other day and that people are dismissive of poems because some of them are short, but honestly Bill Knott was probably the master of the short poem and it's what he's most famous for.

It's a bit ironic that his last draft on his blog is such a long one, but I think that as far as final poems go, this one is not bad.

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lil · 3905 days ago · link ·

Death

BY BILL KNOTT

   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.

+discuss+discuss

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humanodon · 3905 days ago · link ·

ANOTHER RESURRECTION

Also by Bill Knott

   God sucks off tombstones
   until they cum, the soul
   up from its finest gloryhole
   gushers across His tongue--

   Only the premature flesh
   (for the last time/eternally)
   is left to detumesce, just
   another BJ, another JC.

+discuss+discuss

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user-inactivated · 3905 days ago · link ·

Uh, well. Huh.