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Bill Knott's Stimgmata Errata Etcetera is narrative but offbeat, is funny but insightful. It mostly consists of shorter poems, but it also contains some collages of mostly dated looking art. Really, the poem "Total" seems to be an ars poetica.
Bill Knott's Stimgmata Errata Etcetera is narrative but offbeat, is funny but insightful. It mostly consists of shorter poems, but it also contains some collages of mostly dated looking art. Really, the poem "Total" seems to be an ars poetica.
Babel on the table falls,Well, that's not that funny, but it seems to describe the myriad topics of the poems. Still, many of the pieces rely on humor, and they are comfortably narrative in a way that makes fun of itself. In other words, Knott is aware of what he is doing as he takes the average and makes it humorous by turning it slightly in a new direction.
my poem topples
into words
whose rubble shards
I try to stack back up until
they crumble still
again
To be married while sleepwalking
and wake up on your honeymoon
abandoned by the pranster pals who
led you both in blind steps through
the nuptial rites.
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