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"The book is named after the poet Naomi Lazard, whom Knott met in the early 1960s at a poetry workshop run out of the University of Chicago, taught by John Logan."

"How Goes the Night?

How goes the night?
Midnight has still to come.
Down in the court the torch is blazing bright;
I hear far off the throbbing of the drum.

How goes the night?
The night is not yet gone.
I hear the trumpets blowing on the height;
The torch is paling in the coming dawn.

How goes the night?
The night is past and done.
The torch is smoking in the morning light,
The dragon banner floating in the sun."

--Helen Waddell (translated from the Shi King, or Book of Odes) via Black Cat Poems

Seed for Sowing Should Not Be Milled.

"Light is only a shadow which has learned to write its name" --Bill Knott

Paying Attention.