Hear Trains

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In Hear Trains, Caroline Knox seeks further contexts for her striking diction and syntax to establish new forms of understanding. With her signature wit and erudition, she plumbs the depths of etymology, reading, art, and nature, of comma splices, cyanotypes, cupboards, and poppits, lashing together the unlikeliest subjects by the very language they have always shared and delighting readers with a real world made startlingly new, fulsomely re-enriched.

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Her poems invite the more intellectual emotions: bemusement, the breathlessness of newborn understanding. They're a treat for anyone who likes to have her brainstrings tugged.--Polly Shurman, The Village Voice

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.--New Yorker

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, Boston Review

Any word be it rose or usufruct is occasion for a larkishness. 'We trip and drop deeply' over and into the drifts of her lines. A most inquisitive poet who relishes living inside her expansive vocabulary; one who has been faxing by the midnight oil while so many others were dipping their quills into dry sockets. Caroline Knox reminds us how whangy and interesting it all is.--C.D. Wright

Author Bio

Caroline Knox's most recent publications are Hear Trains (Wave Books, forthcoming 2019), To Drink Boiled Snow (Wave Books, 2015), Nine Worthies (Wave Books, 2010), and Flemish (Wave Books, 2013). Quaker Guns (Wave Books, 2008) received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. He Paves the Road with Iron Bars, published by Verse Press in 2004, won the Maurice English Award 2005 for a book by a poet over 50. A Beaker: New and Selected Poems appeared from Verse Press in 2002. Her previous books are The House Party and To Newfoundland (Georgia 1984, 1989), and Sleepers Wake (Timken 1994).