Author: Knott, Bill.
Title: Little Lays: Selected Short Poems 1960-1999.
Description: Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the author, 1999. 1999. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed stapled stiff white paper wraps, titled in black on the front cover and with extensive quotes from reviews on the front and back of the rear cover. The covers are very slightly soiled with a tiny stain. 64 unnumbered pages. Near fine.

Published during May 1999, a collection of self-published poems by Bill Knott (1940-2014) whose death was, let's say, once prematurely announced by a letter from a friend which made the rounds of poets and literary magazines in 1966. A contradiction, Knott was at once self-deprecating, yet acquaintances report that they never knew how much was meant in jest. Winner of a Guggenheim and the Iowa Poetry Prize, he took pleasure in posting collages of rejection slips and played up the release of his book "The Unsubscriber" by Farrar, Straus & Giroux as a desperate last resort. And though others, including Big Table, Random House and the University of Iowa also published some of his earlier efforts, he later chose to self-publish. The internet seemed a logical outgrowth and Knott went on to distribute his work through Amazon and Lulu. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; LITTLE LAYS: SELECTED POEMS 1960-1999; BILL KNOTT; SELF-PUBLISHED; TWENTIETH CENTURY; MODERN; 20TH CENTURY.

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