Weltende Variation #I
(homage Jacob van Hoddis)
FOOTNOTES: Note:
van Hoddis: author of “the first Expressionist poem,” Weltende, published in 1910. His poem has been aped innumerable times, hence the questionmark in my title.
Bill Knott, "Weltende Variation # 1," from Outremer, published by University of Iowa Press. Copyright 1989 by Bill Knott. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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Poet Bill Knott b. 1940
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Biography
Bill Knott’s poetry collections include The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans (1968), Becos (1983), Outremer, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize (1988), Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969–1999 (2000), The Unsubscriber (2004), and Stigmata Errata Etcetera (2007), a collaboration with collages by the artist Star Black. Knott published The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans under the pseudonym . . .
Poems by Bill Knott
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
