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Advice for Mister Knott
Bill Knott poses a thorny question here: Having seized control of his work, and in the process pissed off Farrar, Straus and Giroux‘s Jonathan Galassi, who balked at letting Knott’s last FSG volume The Unsubscriber go out of print, so that Knott could begin publishing poems from it via Lulu; having run into the perplexing situation that critics won’t review his self-published volumes, and bookstores won’t stock them, nor libraries swell their shelves with them; having, that is, had a poetic reality check, Knott is now wondering whether he should not, in fact, offer his almost finished Selected Poems (selected,…Read More