Kntor shares with his fellow Central and Eastern European poets the destiny of being, unavoidably, a political poet of sorts, and yet his politics are pervasively an "antipolitics," a politics that stands back and observes with a cold, knowing, and bemused eye. Kntor shares with his fellow Central and Eastern European poets the destiny of being, unavoidably, a political poet of sorts, and yet his politics are pervasively an "antipolitics," a politics that stands back and observes with a cold, knowing, and bemused eye.