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* Knox receives wide acclaim for her work but remains an undiscovered icon of American poetry. Her newest collection supports her role as a contemporary poetic master, championed by peers such as James Merrill and C.D. Wright.

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* Knox has been a fellow at Harvard and holds strong academic connections in the Northeast.

will appeal to readers interested in the play of language-in translation, mis-translation, regional dialectics, Greek drama, texting and emails-revealing new and surprising tensions between linguistic registers.

offers a lot to readers who enjoy sophisticated wordplay, Knox’s uncanny humor makes her poems also accessible to a wide range of readers.

attends to present life and the immediate world, and Knox’s distinct personality is ever-present in each piece.

promises high-energy academic discussion through her association with other contemporary experimental writers like Susan Howe and Rae Armantrout.