Lynne Knight

POEMS

The following poems are available as audio recordings. Please note that the clips may take a few moments to load.

From Dissolving Borders:

THE STORY (3:00)  

PARALLEL LINES (2:34)  

From Snow Effects:

BODY IN REMEMBRANCE (1:31)  

BODY IN LATE MEDITATION (0:58)  

From The Book of Common Betrayals:

NOW THERE WERE MORE OF THEM (2:03)  

COMMON BETRAYALS (1:33)  

From Deer in Berkeley:

GONE (1:21)  

BACK FROM THE NURSING HOME (1:37)  

From Defying the Flat Surface:

THE BIRTH OF MODERN (1:28)  

AFTER SEEING A REPRODUCTION OF WOLF KAHN'S Sun-drenched Barn IV (1:01)  

From Night in the Shape of a Mirror:

FIRST YEAR OF HER DEMENTIA (1:04)  

THIRD YEAR OF MY MOTHER'S DEMENTIA (1:04)  

From Again:

O, Penelope! (2:18)  

A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (1:00)  

From The Best American Poetry 2000:

THE MUSE OF THE ACTUAL (2:07)  

From Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars:

THERE, IN MY GRANDFATHER'S OLD GREEN BUICK (1:45)  

 

 

Lynne Knight | The Persistence of Longing
 
Lynne Knight | The Bone Woman
 
Lynne Knight | Again
 
Lynne Knight | Night in the Shape of a Mirror
 
Lynne Knight | The Book of Common Betrayals
 
Lynne Knight | Dissolving Borders
 
I Know (Je sais), translated with the author Ito Naga
 
Lynne Knight | Snow Effects
 
Lynne Knight | Defying the Flat Surface
 
Lynne Knight | Deer in Berkeley