The Unsubscriber: Poems

Eavesdroppers fear

the hermit's soliloquy.

Wake up, wound, the knife said.

— from "To Live By"

Bill Knott's poetic manner — surreal yet vernacular, outrageous and tender — is unlike anything in contemporary American verse. In The Unsubscriber, he investigates cloning laboratories and spaceships, cemeteries and battlefields, talks to Damocles and pokes fun at Hamlet, witnesses the moments before a seduction, and charts maps in the stars and in forests. Knott tells fables, poses questions, shadows spies, and breathes new life into poetry's oldest stories: love and war. The Unsubscriber is the first new book in a decade by a fiercely iconoclastic American poet deserving of a wide audience.

• Author
• Bill Knott

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 136

• Publisher
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-374-53014-3

• EAN
• 9780374530143

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2006