Bill Knott
2) Becos: poems
Author
Language
English
Description
"Becos" is the Phrygian word for bread and was perhaps the first word spoken by the human race. As a heading for these 40 poems, "becos" connotes Everyman's concern for survival -- spiritual, global, and otherwise and poetry as a possible means to that end. Though Knott has not altogether abandoned the poetry of glamorous mutilations, the searing belligerence of certain earlier poems has been transformed into a poetics of grappling with illusive snapshot...