{"product_id":"to-drink-boiled-snow-caroline-knox-9781940696119","title":"To Drink Boiled Snow","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caroline Knox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940696119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940696119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/04\/2016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caroline Knox","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48486411108607,"sku":"9781940696119","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8994d516-c718-442b-b021-a026ad7ddc2d.jpg?v=1778055342","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-drink-boiled-snow-caroline-knox-9781940696119","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}