Quaker Guns

by Knox, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9781933517278
• ISBN10: 1933517271
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wave Books

Summary

With the adventurousness of Ashbery and the gregariousness of Billy Collins, no one's bag of tricks is as bottomless as Caroline Knox's. They're Quaker guns, a creative ruse, the kind you couldn't and wouldn't fire: they're flotsam, jetsam, or any old trees, ships' logs. They're broken masts. They're the Friends of the Friends. Caroline Knox is the winner of the 2005 Maurice English Award and the author of six collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Dress Pattern with an Interior	p. 1
My Husband Sat Up	p. 2
A Dance	p. 4
We Beheld Two Nebulas	p. 6
My Anorak	p. 9
Quaker Guns	p. 10
Andirons	p. 11
The Title	p. 13
Dreyken	p. 14
Sestina at Yin Yu Tang	p. 16
It Was Christmas	p. 18
Hooke's Law	p. 20
Who'll Buy	p. 26
Line Poem	p. 27
Source Text	p. 28
Coordinates	p. 30
The Owl and the Lark	p. 32
Oh	p. 35
Salad	p. 37
A Lot of the Days I Wake Up	p. 39
Oldest Dog	p. 40
Nerf	p. 41
Canzone delle Preposizioni	p. 44
Title Law Is Pleasant	p. 47
Wind Turbine	p. 48
Spinoza	p. 49
Face-Masque	p. 50
Goth Plaint	p. 56
Newfoundland Dog Ears Haiku	p. 57
Erasure Erasure	p. 58
Fox	p. 60
Song	p. 61
Dove	p. 62
A Parallelogram	p. 64
Text Panel	p. 65
Notes	p. 67
Acknowledgments	p. 69
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