{"product_id":"to-drink-boiled-snow-hardcover","title":"To Drink Boiled Snow - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaroline Knox\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One might argue that nothing is sacred in Caroline Knox's work, but it would be truer to its spirit to say that everything is sacred here--and all are welcome.\"--Rebecca Frank, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Caroline Knox reminds us how whangy and interesting it all is.\"--C.D. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She is often obscure, but her allusions are as much a sign of camaraderie as of scholarly pretension, her poems a pert crystallization impossible in more narrative poetry.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Knox once again demonstrates that she is a master at lyrical billiards, sending all levels of diction in surprising and comedic directions. No subject matter is off-limits for her examination. Her vast range of experiment is exciting, and the ensuing poems are games, dreams, and riddles. This collection is art on the page for the eye and the ear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Poem\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf milk, these persons make the butter until have\u003cbr\u003ewhat are cheeses when they're at home;\u003cbr\u003eof cheese, hors d'oeuvres of sandwich are manufactured\u003cbr\u003esandwich islands. The workforce custom subsume\u003cbr\u003edraft cereal. Forasmuch as we\u003cbr\u003eare not birdlike, we pig out, crikey, \u003cbr\u003eput away comestibles big-time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Knox\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent publications are \u003ci\u003eFlemish \u003c\/i\u003e(Wave Books, 2013), and \u003ci\u003eNine Worthies \u003c\/i\u003e(Wave Books, 2010). \u003ci\u003eQuaker Guns \u003c\/i\u003e(Wave Books, 2008) received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Six poems are anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council (1996, 2006), The Fund for Poetry, and the Yale\/Mellon Visiting Faculty Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Knox's most recent publications are \u003ci\u003eTo Drink Boiled Snow\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2015), \u003ci\u003eFlemish\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2013), and \u003ci\u003eNine Worthies\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2010). \u003ci\u003eQuaker Guns\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2008) received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. \u003ci\u003eHe Paves the Road with Iron Bars\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Verse Press in 2004, won the Maurice English Award 2005 for a book by a poet over 50. \u003ci\u003eA Beaker: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e appeared from Verse Press in 2002. Her previous books are \u003ci\u003eThe House Party\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Newfoundland\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia 1984, 1989), and \u003ci\u003eSleepers Wake\u003c\/i\u003e (Timken 1994). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMassachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry (whose Bess Hokin Prize she won)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poems have been in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1988 and 1994), and on \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e. Six poems are anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council (1996, 2006), The Fund for Poetry, and the Yale\/Mellon Visiting Faculty Program. She was the judge for the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America in Spring 2003, and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard in 2003-2004. With Matthea Harvey and Peter Gizzi, she was a judge of the James Laughlin Award 2007.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 10.2 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48398040105181,"sku":"9781940696119","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/vXIhaH1UHw9781940696119.webp?v=1787219169","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/to-drink-boiled-snow-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}