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Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the California desert spring to life through evocative renderings of the American landscape, circa 1950. Likewise, her coming of age as a poet in the turbulent sixties is evoked through the era?s angry, creative energy. As she looks backward with the perspective that time and age allows, Notley ably captures the immediacy of youth?s passion while offering her own dry-eyed interpretations of the events of a life lived close to the bone. Like the colorful collages she assembles from paper and other found materials, Notley erects structures of image and feeling to house the memories that swirl around her in the present. In their feverish, intelligent renderings of moments both precise and ephemeral, Notley?s poems manage to mirror and transcend the times they evoke. Her profound tributes to the stages of her life and to the identities she has assumed?child, youth, lover, poet, wife, mother, friend, and widow?are remarkable for their insight and wisdom?and for the courage of their unblinking gaze.
In The Descent of Alette, Alice Notley presents a feminist epic, a
bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds
herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and
people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world
above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of
continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and
undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to
confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure, with
rhythmic units indicated by quotation marks, Notley has created a
"spoken" text, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination, mystery,
and power.
A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings
together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School
poet Ted Berrigan. "Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York
School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city
itself."-John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
"Get the Money!" was Ted Berrigan's mantra for the paid writing
gigs he took on in support of his career as a poet. This
long-awaited collection of his essential prose draws upon the many
essays, reviews, introductions, and other texts he produced for
hire, as well as material from his journals, travelogues, and
assorted, unclassifiable creative texts. Get the Money! documents
Berrigan's innovative poetics and techniques, as well as the
creative milieu of poets-centered around New York's Poetry
Project-for whom he served as both nurturer and catalyst.
Highlights include his journals from the '60s, depicting his early
poetic discoveries and bohemian activities in New York; the
previously unpublished "Some Notes About 'C,'" an account of his
mimeo magazine that serves as a de facto memoir of the early days
of the second-generation New York School; a moving and prescient
obituary, "Frank O'Hara Dead at 40"; book "reviews" consisting of
poems entirely collaged from lines in the book; art reviews of
friends and collaborators like Joe Brainard, George Schneeman, and
Jane Freilicher; and his notorious "Interviews" with John Cage and
John Ashbery, both of which were completely fabricated. Get the
Money! provides a view into the development of Berrigan's
aesthetics in real time, as he captures the heady excitement of the
era and champions the poets and artists he loves. Praise for Get
the Money!: "Get the Money! captures the esprit de corps of the
particular community close to Ted's door on St Mark's Place. This
book of prose with its nimble lift, tinged with intimacy, wit, and
perception is a welcome addition to the second generation NY School
canon. Ted often went hungry but could make a few dollars with the
short reviews. One walks the rounds with Ted on his 'beat': Love,
poetry, gossip, art. Telling it like it is. Strolling into artist
studios, galleries, poets' modest digs, and into our hearts."-Anne
Waldman, author of Trickster Feminism "Ted was my mentor, my
teacher of America and its poetry, and I often quote him. He was an
oral genius and I have regretted not writing down everything he
said to me. Now I have this collection of journals, critical
writing on art, aphorisms, and correspondence. It makes for a grand
portrait of the poet who charmed my whole generation. Ted Berrigan
is alive in this book in ways that no one could guess."-Andrei
Codrescu, author of Too Late for Nightmares "It's always a
significant occasion when we have an edition of a poets prose. Get
the Money! offers us an important window into Ted Berrigan's
laboratory, his no bullshit attitude, his class awareness, his
gorgeous sentimentality, and his disarming anarchic humor. This
book is what anyone could hope it would be: funny, tender,
brilliant, intimate, original, alive."-Peter Gizzi, author of Now
It's Dark "Ted Berrigan's voice has always been instantly familiar
to me so Get the Money! feels less like a reading experience and
more like taking a long walk with my favorite poet, then buying him
a drink someplace and letting him talk. The pieces collected here
offer a superhuman range of formal invention. ... Berrigan's prose
is often loose and lyrical, hovering somewhere between blogging,
letter writing, texting, and transcription. His deadpan bravura and
sudden dismissiveness are consistently hilarious. Decades after his
death Berrigan remains way ahead of his time. I think Robert
Creeley said it best, 'The Bell rings / Ted is ready'."-Cedar Sigo,
author of All This Time
A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the
Southwest American desert.
Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new
book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the
dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of
America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate
artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings,
collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one."
The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately
stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of
the book. "Culture of One" offers further proof of how Notley "has
freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so
that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be" ("The Boston
Review").
A bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's
greatest living poets
Alice Notley is considered by many to be among the most
outstanding of living American poets. Notley's work has always been
highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics with long,
expansive lines of poetry that often take the form of prose
sentences, in an effort "to change writing completely." The title
piece, a folksong-like lament, makes a unified tale out of many
stories of many people; the middle section, "The Black Trailor," is
a compilation of noir fictions and reflections; while the shorter
poems of "Hemostatic" range from tough lyrics to sung dramas. Full
of curative power, music, and the possibility of transformation,
"In the Pines" is a genre- bending book from one of our most
innovative writers.
Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, Mysteries of Small Houses, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Structured as a long series of interconnected poems in which one of the main elements is an ongoing dialogue with a seedy detective, Disobedience sets out to explore the visible as well as the unconscious. These poems, composed during a fifteen-month period, also deal with being a woman in France, with turning fifty, and with being a poet, and thus seemingly despised or at least ignored.
A major new book-length visionary poem from a writer "whose poems
are among the major astonishments of contemporary poetry" (Robert
Polito, the Poetry Foundation) 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 book, For the Ride,
is another such work. The protagonist, "One," is suddenly within
the glyph, whose walls project scenes One can enter, and One does
so. Other beings begin to materialize, and it seems like they (and
One) are all survivors of a global disaster. They board a ship to
flee to another dimension; they decide what they must save on this
Ark are words, and they gather together as many as are deemed fit
to save. They "sail" and meanwhile begin to change the language
they are speaking, before disembarking at an abandoned future city.
Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living
American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that
includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres,
the postmodern series, the newly invented epic, political
observation and invective, and the poem as novel. This
chronological selection of her most notable work offers a
delineation of her life and creative development. Formerly
associated with the second generation of the New York School,
Notley has become a poet with a completely distinctive voice. Grave
of Light is a progression of changing forms and styles--an
extensive panorama held together explicitly by the shape of the
poet's times. Notley's poems challenge their subjects head-on,
suffusing language with radiant truth.
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.
Following the highly acclaimed "Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, "
poets Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan have
collaborated again on this new selection of poems by one of the
most influential and admired poets of his generation. Reflecting a
new editorial approach, this volume demonstrates the breadth of Ted
Berrigan's poetic accomplishments by presenting his most
celebrated, interesting, and important work. This major second-wave
New York School poet is often identified with his early poems,
especially "The Sonnets, " but this selection encompasses his full
poetic output, including the later sequences "Easter Monday" and "A
Certain Slant of Sunlight, " as well as many of his uncollected
poems. The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan provides a new
perspective for those already familiar with his remarkable wit and
invention, and introduces new readers to what John Ashbery called
the "crazy energy" of this iconoclastic, funny, brilliant, and
highly innovative writer.
Praise for" The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan: "
"This is a great, great book for all seasons of the mind and
heart."--Robert Creeley
"Thanks to this invaluable "Collected Poems, " one can hear, as
never before, Ted Berrigan dreaming his dream."--"The Nation"
""The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan "is not only one of the most
strikingly attractive books recently published, but is also a major
work of 20th-century poetry. . . . It is a book that will darken
with the grease of my hands. There is no better way to praise it
than by saying, 'If you enjoy poetry, you should have it.'"
--"Bloomsbury Review "
"It's a must-have, a poetic knockout."--"Time Out New York"
"Comfortably intimate--classically adroit in its formal wit and
invention--altogether unique yet in no way excluding, this
meticulously edited edition of a master poet's collected works
gives us the defining bridge from the "New American Poetry" of the
'50s to that poetry now contemporary on both coasts and in all
conditions. No one ever recognized the people with whom he lived
more particularly than did Ted Berrigan, and no one ever brought
them home to a reader with such unaggressive and persistent power.
This is a great, great book for all seasons of the mind and
heart."--Robert Creeley"Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York
School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city
itself. It is wonderful to have his Collected Poems in
print."--John Ashbery"A comprehensive and carefully chronicled
volume that puts Ted Berrigan in historical context as one of the
most influential poets of his generation. His poems: deft, light,
definitely humorous, irreverent, poignant, 'marvelous and tough.'
The truth doing its work, 'the great man doing the ordinary thing,
' with a quick ear and a quick tongue, revealing the personal in
the universal. He gives you his full attention--'about to be born
again thinking of you.' "--Joanne Kyger"In a life devoted to
experimental art, Ted Berrigan shaped his poetry and the space he
occupied with a bold artistry based on his playful but powerfully
skeptical view of the world. He wondered what might actually be
captured within the pages of a book, but The Collected Poems allows
us to again enjoy Ted Berrigan's delightfully demanding
presence."--Lorenzo Thomas
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