An important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the
2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Alice Notley has become one of the
most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the
visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending book-length poems of
great ambition and adventurousness. Her newest work sets out to
explore the world and its difficulties, from the recent economic
crisis and climate change to the sorrow of violence and the
disappointment of democracy or any other political system. Notley
channels these themes in a mix of several longer poems - one is a
kind of spy novella in which the author is discovered to be a
secret agent of the dead, another an extended message found in a
manuscript in a future defunct world - with some unique shorter
pieces. Varying formally between long expansive lines, a
mysteriously cohering sequence in meters reminiscent of ancient
Latin, a narration with a postmodern broken surface, and the
occasional sonnet, these are grand poems, inviting the reader to be
grand enough to survive, spiritually, a planet's ruin.
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