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Flemish

by Caroline Knox

Published by: Wave Books

Imprint: Wave Books

64 Pages, 7.00 x 9.50 in

Hardcover
9781933517650
Published: April 2013

$20.00

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"A most inquisitive poet who relishes living inside her expansive vocabulary."C.D. Wright

A web of wholly original madhattery, Flemish showcases serious language play and the skill of a master craftsperson. Caroline Knox is writing at the top of her game, and reading her is a pleasure not to be missed.

Our font is full of construction-
paper fish, made by
the church school for us to

each take home one of,
a reverse tithe.

Caroline Knox is the recipient of numerous awards and has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University.

Contents

He Was a Chartist
Stove Seasoning
Key
Flemish
Giant Culinary Otters
Wildwood Flower
You
Harley Lyric
His Mistress’s Rights He Doth Defend
tion
Composite
Scottish Fleet Pattern Number Twenty-Four
They
Aragon
Marston
Joan of Arc High
The Eaves
Subjects
Singing in Yoghurt
At midnight the sound
Coffee Cantata
Where
If you are nearsighted
Kevin
The font is full of fish
The Scottish Play
He Lives in Bayonne
Society
Year after Year
I’m going to Rupert’s Land

Notes
Acknowledgments

Caroline Knox's most recent publications are Hear Trains (Wave Books, forthcoming 2019), To Drink Boiled Snow (Wave Books, 2015), Nine Worthies (Wave Books, 2010), and Flemish (Wave Books, 2013). Quaker Guns (Wave Books, 2008) received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. He Paves the Road with Iron Bars, published by Verse Press in 2004, won the Maurice English Award 2005 for a book by a poet over 50. A Beaker: New and Selected Poems appeared from Verse Press in 2002. Her previous books are The House Party and To Newfoundland (Georgia 1984, 1989), and Sleepers Wake (Timken 1994).

By turns funny, esoteric, and absurdist, Flemish is also positively enthralling, an energetic paean to language, the object, and the history of language and of objects. —Seth Abramson, Huffington Post

Knox dresses her speakers and her cacophony of subjects (sister, otters, Dickinson, Mary Wesley) in whatever clothes history hands them (or she conjures up), letting them act out their roles on a spindle of wordplay and pathos. —Publishers Weekly

Flemish

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