COCKTAILS IN THE WILD
COCKTAILS IN THE WILD explores form wildly from couplets to long winding lines that swallow the reader up and transport them to a new place. A place for the senses. A place for the heart. Robert Knox toys with political and social conventions of today's modern landscape, and at the same time lets the reader revel in all of the niceties of the natural world.
Thoreau wrote, "In wildness lies the preservation of the world." In the poems of "Cocktails in the Wild," Robert Knox mixes lyrical reports on the way we live now, praise for civilized values worth preserving, and the occasional rant with an ear for the Thoreauvian thrum at the heart of things, to produce these "Cocktails in the Wild." The poems take us from a balcony in Beirut, a place of beauty, history and danger, to the grim seasons of the American 2016 presidential campaign. We place a phone call to India, view a squawking peaceable kingdom in Florida (mind the alligators lurking below), raise a glass in homage to Keats and Philip Larkin, and remember that the way things were is not a recipe for tomorrow, but a gateway to today. Let's walk through it to the wildness in ourselves.
POETRY/978-1947021211/March 29, 2018
COCKTAILS IN THE WILD explores form wildly from couplets to long winding lines that swallow the reader up and transport them to a new place. A place for the senses. A place for the heart. Robert Knox toys with political and social conventions of today's modern landscape, and at the same time lets the reader revel in all of the niceties of the natural world.
Thoreau wrote, "In wildness lies the preservation of the world." In the poems of "Cocktails in the Wild," Robert Knox mixes lyrical reports on the way we live now, praise for civilized values worth preserving, and the occasional rant with an ear for the Thoreauvian thrum at the heart of things, to produce these "Cocktails in the Wild." The poems take us from a balcony in Beirut, a place of beauty, history and danger, to the grim seasons of the American 2016 presidential campaign. We place a phone call to India, view a squawking peaceable kingdom in Florida (mind the alligators lurking below), raise a glass in homage to Keats and Philip Larkin, and remember that the way things were is not a recipe for tomorrow, but a gateway to today. Let's walk through it to the wildness in ourselves.
POETRY/978-1947021211/March 29, 2018
COCKTAILS IN THE WILD explores form wildly from couplets to long winding lines that swallow the reader up and transport them to a new place. A place for the senses. A place for the heart. Robert Knox toys with political and social conventions of today's modern landscape, and at the same time lets the reader revel in all of the niceties of the natural world.
Thoreau wrote, "In wildness lies the preservation of the world." In the poems of "Cocktails in the Wild," Robert Knox mixes lyrical reports on the way we live now, praise for civilized values worth preserving, and the occasional rant with an ear for the Thoreauvian thrum at the heart of things, to produce these "Cocktails in the Wild." The poems take us from a balcony in Beirut, a place of beauty, history and danger, to the grim seasons of the American 2016 presidential campaign. We place a phone call to India, view a squawking peaceable kingdom in Florida (mind the alligators lurking below), raise a glass in homage to Keats and Philip Larkin, and remember that the way things were is not a recipe for tomorrow, but a gateway to today. Let's walk through it to the wildness in ourselves.
POETRY/978-1947021211/March 29, 2018
About the Author
Robert Knox, an accomplished writer and journalist, weaves his investigative rigor with vivid storytelling in his debut novel, exploring the iconic case of Sacco and Vanzetti against the backdrop of 1920s anti-immigrant sentiment and a biased legal system. A Boston Globe freelancer, Knox has published stories, poetry, and creative nonfiction in numerous literary journals, earning recognition as a Massachusetts Artist Grant Finalist. His stories have placed in competitions and appeared in anthologies, while his nonfiction and poetry have been featured widely online and in print. A seasoned poet, his collection Gardeners Do it With their Hands Dirty (Coda Crab Books) is forthcoming, adding to his repertoire of work in journals like Verse-Virtual and The Poetry Superhighway. Knox, a Yale philosophy graduate with a Master’s in English from Boston University, has also taught college literature and composition. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Anne Meyerson, who directs a Boston YMCA job-training program; their daughter Sonya works with the UN in Beirut, and their son Saul, a blues guitarist, teaches aspiring musicians.
