Drunk By Noon
Bloof Books, 2007

People who type on the interwebs are unanimous: you'd be dumber than a bag of hammers not to run out and buy all the copies of Drunk By Noon you can fit into the trunk of a stolen car!

From Jacket Magazine
"These are not poems to be placed on a pedestal. They are to be read and, most importantly, enjoyed...she is doing something that captures attention, is truly artistic, and fills a void in contemporary poetry. It is the average people that Knox ends up speaking to...I, for one, am certainly happy that she continues to speak, and I will definitely keep listening."

From Harriet, The Poetry Foundation Blog
"Knox continues to simultaneously pierce and please the reader...Knox's brusque no-nonsense voice can be rough to the touch at times, tough too, but it is always finely anchored in gorgeous language and sound-play that twists richly through the verse...Though many tout Knox's humor as her most popular quality, like the best technicians of comedy it is the jugular she goes for, by way of the jocular...From a landscape of Americana with its tumbleweeds, acid hits, red meat and f*cking, Knox's voice comes at us courageous and stouthearted sticking her flag deep in the soil of this weird and wicked world."

From Publisher's Weekly
"This second book from Knox, a young New York poet, continues the playful romp through the warped Americana she began in her debut, A Gringo Like Me. Here, Knox gives voice to wayward teens, drug-addled sages and fat dogs fantasizing about killing babies—among other unsavory characters—through dramatic monologues and quick narrative sketches. ...[F]ascination with the down-and-out lurks behind Knox's layers of irony and comic distance. She's at her best and most entertaining in bursts of everyday surrealism—like the poem 'Pastoral with Internet Porn,' which bristles with energy and imagination."

From Diagram
Though she loves to taunt the staunch literary type with references to Andy and Barney, Pimp My Ride, and Wango Tango, her poems revel not only in the affirmation that American pop culture is substantive enough, thank you very much, but, that, even within the realm of the bull rider "hot blood" lurks beneath the surface.

From Coldfront Magazine
"Not since I first read James Tate have I encountered a poet who is able create a world that is at once so bizarrely asymmetrical to ours and yet somehow uncannily accurate in its portrayal of humanness...I’d recommend this book to anyone, even if they don’t start their day with a sixer."

From Mipoesias
"Knox creates lines of poetry at staggering levels of quality, peppered into each poem, regardless of the implausible image she is trying to sell...Full of the garish colors of life that can suddenly litter a landscape, it tells of the awkward, insignificant, yet very real pieces of humanness, however beautiful or unbeautiful."

Christopher William Purdom of Philly Art
"Remember flying down toward the bay hanging on to the outside of the cable car by the strap like in the commercial only much, much faster, so fast you can't parse the curves of Lombard Street on your right or the excited cries of tourists who've never seen a simile dangling from a metaphor, cars zipping by inches from your feet, the only thing standing between you and certain death the brakeman ready to drop that giant bolt through the hole in the floor if anything goes wrong, only he isn't really between you and death at all, he's way in the back and for all you know he isn't standing and possibly not even paying any attention and then when you do finally does come to a stop you're already figuring out how you can get back up to the top of the hill to do it all again? It's that good. Seriously. Go buy a copy. Now."

From that slut, Jason B. Jones, at Bookslut
"Her poems are an almost indescribable mix of crazed humor and sympathetic imagination, always provocative and even moving...What's striking about Knox's work is that she seems willing to say almost anything, which sounds like it could be self-indulgent but which in her hands turns into a powerful, idiosyncratic account of American culture."

From Lost at Sea
"Knox showcases her ability to take readers on journeys to almost anywhere...Her work, however, is more than an outlandish stunt; there are some really lovely moments hidden away in these poems, poignant and touching lines wrapped up in bizarre scenarios which most people would probably never think of, moments of impossibility, or mundane instances too often ignored as the everyday...With Drunk by Noon Jennifer L. Knox is putting the excitement back into poetry."