Lynne Knight

Lynne KnightLynne Knight was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. Knight graduated from the University of Michigan, where she won two Hopwood Awards, and from Syracuse University, where she was a fellow in poetry and received her MA in Creative Writing and Literature.

After teaching for four decades at both the high school and college levels, Knight now works as a poet and translator. In 2018, she became a permanent resident of Canada, where she lives on Vancouver Island.

Knight has published six full-length collections and six chapbooks. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, and Southern Review.

Her awards and honors include publication in Best American Poetry, a Prix de l’Alliance Française, a PSA Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, a RATTLE Poetry Prize, and an NEA grant.

 

Lynne Knight | The Argument Against Eternity

Knight's most recent chapbook is published by Mudlark, an Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics / Never in and never out of print....
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Lynne Knight | The Language of Forgetting
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'In the end it's all one story...' Lynne Knight tells us in one poem, but The Language of Forgetting is inspired by a fascination with the accumulated secrets lying under the many stories of a lived life. —Forrest Hamer
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Lynne Knight | The Persistence of Longing
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I've never read poems that seem to me more accurate about love and desire and sexual relationships and their almost-inevitable shattering--darkly gorgeous and expertly-crafted poems, with a white-hot lyric intensity and a narrative pull that becomes cumulative, an erotic veering toward doom. —Cecilia Woloch
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Lynne Knight | The Bone Woman

Knight's 2017 chapbook is published by Mudlark, an Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics / Never in and never out of print....
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Lynne Knight | Again

In Again, Lynne Knight's musical and compelling fourth full-length collection of poetry, her measured and lyrical voice reveals desire and memory as physical presences: spirits invoked by the spell of the poem so that the reader embodies her stories of the body of damage and breakage, recovery and repair.
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Lynne Knight | Night in the Shape of a Mirror

Night in the Shape of a Mirror is a haunting sequence of lyrics and narratives that explores the descent of a woman’s life into twilight and then darkness. The poet’s music, muted and graceful, guides us through the shadows.
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Lynne Knight | The Book of Common Betrayals

In The Book of Common Betrayals Knight explores the idea that betrayal, whether a violation of trust or an unwitting revelation, is part of our inheritance as humans.
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Lynne Knight | Dissolving Borders

Highly imaginative, with a driving force, Knight follows her poems wherever they outrageously, magically, necessarily take her. —Ted Weiss
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I Know (Je sais), translated with the author Ito Naga

This bilingual edition of Ito Naga's best-selling book, now in its seventh edition in France, is a collection of 469 statements on life and the universe...
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Lynne Knight | Snow Effects

With genuine imaginative reach, a keen eye, and penetrating sensibilities, Knight enters fifteen Impressionist winterscapes and makes them her own, finding both beauty and insight along the way. —Jane Hirshfield
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