{"product_id":"i-am-flying-into-myself-selected-poems-1960-2014-9780374537524","title":"I Am Flying Into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring, \"thorny genius\" (Robert Pinsky)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoing to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey will place my hands like this.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt will look as though I am flying into myself.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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 instead to freewheel from French surrealism to the avant-garde and back again--experimenting relentlessly and refusing to embrace straightforward dialectics. Whether drawing from musings on romantic love or propaganda from the Vietnam War, Knott's quintessential poems are alive with sensory activity, abiding by the pulse and impulse of a pure, restless emotion. This provocative, playful sensibility has ensured that his poems have a rare and unmistakable immediacy, effortlessly crystalizing thought in all its moods and tenses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn essential contribution to American letters, \u003ci\u003eI am Flying into Myself\u003c\/i\u003e gathers a selection of Knott's previous volumes of poetry, published between 1960 and 2004, as well as verse circulated online from 2005 until a few days before his death in 2014. His work--ranging from surrealistic wordplay to the anti-poem, sonnets, sestinas, and haikus--all convenes in this inventive and brilliant book, arranged by his friend the poet Thomas Lux, to showcase our American Rimbaud, one of the true poetic innovators of the last century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates one of poetry's most determined outsiders, a vitally important American poet richly deserving of a wider audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374537524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Bill Knott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45351341031605,"sku":"9780374537524","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f8e29018-93ac-44c7-a628-72fe8a5b1461.jpg?v=1746541106","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-am-flying-into-myself-selected-poems-1960-2014-9780374537524","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}