BIll Knott

Question: "Who is the worst “bad guy” in all poetry?"
Answer : "Me. (Huh!)"

Bill Knott

William Kilborn Knott or "Saint Geraud"

(a pseudonym taken from the name of the director of a sex-riddled orphanage, lecherous title-character of an obscure 18th century French pornographic novel called Le Tartuffe Libertin The Lascivious Hypocrite) is a poet. He is also an associate professor at the Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty of Emerson College in Boston.

I am certain most people who are interested in poetry and in the work of this particular poet know of this blog, but I am always the last person to board the train.....just how it is....

Knott has posted his entire catalog of poems to a blog, citing dissatisfaction with the print world and considering his poetry "failed" as "none of [it] achieved any popularity or significant critical acclaim".

Bill, it has not (sorry about the pun). The work holds up.

It is romantic, surreal, funny, metaphysical, witty, sad, and tender.