Alice Notley, Author . Penguin $18.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-100229-3
After many years as an independently published poet, Notley did two stellar books with Penguin in the '90s: the 1996 long-poem, Descent of Alette, and 1998's Pulitzer runner-up, Mysteries of Small Houses,
recounting, among other things,...
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Alice Notley, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $29.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6772-7
Over the last quarter-century, Notley has crafted an increasingly important body of work that mixes unabashed lyric beauty with jerky snippets from a capacious mind. Her books, however, have been haphazardly and often obscurely published by both...
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Alice Notley, Author . Granary $17.95 (350p) ISBN 978-1-887123-72-3
The prolific Notley's newest book, following this year's career-spanning selected poems, Grave of Light
, is a surreal, genre-bending novel written in verse and prose poems, or an epic narrative poem written mostly in prose. Divided into six
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Alice Notley, Author . Penguin $18 (131p) ISBN 978-0-14-311254-9
Notley takes the title of her 30-somethingth collection from a notorious American folk song: a man tries to get his lover to admit she's been unfaithful, asking her where she's slept, and her ambiguous answer—“in the pines”
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Alice Notley, Author Penguin Books $18 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-058764-7
Often considered a second-generation New York School poet, Notley (Closer to Me and Closer...) offers a vividly imagined book-length poem. The work reads like a postmodern, mytho-feminist combination of Dante's Inferno and the Old English Beowulf--fr
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Alice Notley, Author Penguin Books $18 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-058896-5
In her latest collection, Notley takes a step back from the body of work she has amassed over the last three decades (The Descent of Alette; Selected Poems; etc.) to compose a kind of quasi-autobiography in verse. Casual, forthright and perceptive,...
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Alice Notley. Penguin, $18 trade paper (162p) ISBN 978-0-14-311893-0
Notley's newest book (she's written over 30) is a verse narrative about a woman named Marie who lives in a dump and makes art. She is based on a real person Notley encountered in her youth in the American Southwest, though decades after the real...
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Alice Notley. Penguin, $20 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-310816-0
“I’m/ trying to invent a new language; I was told to/ by someone who doesn’t exist,” exclaims Notley (Benediction) near the midpoint of her almost shockingly ambitious 36th book. An inspiration to countercultural writers since the 1970s, a recorder...
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Alice Notley, Author, Ted Berrigan, Author, Alice Notley, Editor Penguin Books $12.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-058699-2
Berrigan (1934-1983) was a prolific poet and, many feel, a major figure of the second generation New York School poets. The highlight of this collection is its grand finale, a hefty selection from Berrigan's 1967 volume, The Sonnets , which changed...
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Alice Notley. Penguin, $20 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-14313-457-2
Notley (Certain Magical Acts) has long been synonymous with the second generation of the New York school, feminist poetics, political dissidence, and, in the last several decades, an epic mode that gives her jittery, particular, and inventive poems...
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Alice Notley. Fonograf, $27.95 (640p) ISBN 978-1-73780-362-1
This epic offering gathers six books written by Notley between 2013 and 2015 to form a series that invites the living and the dead to participate in an act of healing and reforming the universe. Notley draws on her formidable observational skills to
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Alice Notley. Penguin Books, $20 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-313797-9
A noteworthy member of the self-appointed Second New York School, Notley (For the Ride) takes the title of her expansive 50th book from a poem by Frank O’Hara: she is “reflected upon” by people and places witnessed and imagined during a 17-year...
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