tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post6545535743340063906..comments2024-02-25T09:45:48.931-05:00Comments on Lally's Alley: BILL KNOTT R.I.P.Lallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-74474025999762764972014-03-17T09:55:24.051-04:002014-03-17T09:55:24.051-04:00You're welcome Bill. As for Iowa, I met a guy ...You're welcome Bill. As for Iowa, I met a guy while I was in the service, a college kid who later went got into the Iowa Workshop and talked me into coming out to Iowa City. I didn't have a BA so they wouldn't let me in right away, but I talked them into letting me work on both degrees at once and George Starbuck who was the head then, when other objected to letting mien said it would be good for the other students to have this "older" (25!) working-class, married veteran with a family in the workshop with them. I learned a lot from those fellow students.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-31860890420654997492014-03-17T00:45:33.137-04:002014-03-17T00:45:33.137-04:00Three beautiful poems you reprint here. Playing de...Three beautiful poems you reprint here. Playing dead on a child's grave is a particularly haunting line. All of them startle me into a doubletake. Thanks for your tribute. On an only dimly related topic, you don't seem like an Iowa Workshop kind of guy—but you are definitely a special one.William McPhersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16730289656022467918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-37283960829078315192014-03-13T17:37:43.206-04:002014-03-13T17:37:43.206-04:00beautiful tribute tp, and list poembeautiful tribute tp, and list poemLallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-52538139621337408932014-03-13T16:41:26.259-04:002014-03-13T16:41:26.259-04:00I'm sorry to hear this news. I don't remem...I'm sorry to hear this news. I don't remember ever meeting him, but back in days of old I was a fan of his work, and still have <i>The Naomi Poems, Nights of Naomi,</i> and <i>Auto-Necrophilia</i>, all of which I loved. He was definitely an original. I found a grocery list of my own just now stuck in <i>Nights of Naomi</i> that feels for me like a time-capsule:<br />eggs<br />bacon<br />bread<br />cake <br />cigs<br />juice.<br /><br />That is all ye needed back then, and all ye needed to need.<br />tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.com