{"title":"Alice Notley","description":"Alice Notley (1945 -2025) was born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California. She is the author of more than forty books of poetry, including Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Disobedience (Penguin, 2001, winner of the Griffin Prize); and Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.","products":[{"product_id":"mysteries-of-small-houses-poems-paperback","title":"Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Finalist \u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Los Angeles Time Book Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn autobiographical collection of poetry by Alice Notley, \"One of America's greatest poets\" (Poetry Foundation) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376709763295,"sku":"9780140588965","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/odT-jFo2_b9780140588965.webp?v=1789221752"},{"product_id":"disobedience-paperback-3","title":"Disobedience - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, \u003cb\u003eMysteries of Small Houses\u003c\/b\u003e, 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, \u003cb\u003eDisobedience\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376716284127,"sku":"9780141002293","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yaB8YSTf7m9780141002293.webp?v=1789221769"},{"product_id":"the-descent-of-alette-paperback","title":"The Descent of Alette - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Decent Of Alette\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 quotations marks, Notley has created a \"spoken\" text, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination, mystery, and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376766189791,"sku":"9780140587647","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dzYmRBxoHs9780140587647.webp?v=1789225281"},{"product_id":"in-the-pines-paperback-2","title":"In the Pines - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's greatest living poets\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eIn the Pines\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre- bending book from one of our most innovative writers.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378173444319,"sku":"9780143112549","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/05YMBZDm8Z9780143112549.webp?v=1789250770"},{"product_id":"for-the-ride-paperback","title":"For the Ride - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 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\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378255593695,"sku":"9780143134572","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/day0G-GDwB9780143134572.webp?v=1789250876"},{"product_id":"certain-magical-acts-paperback","title":"Certain Magical Acts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378315985119,"sku":"9780143108160","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8IT3cEQpmd9780143108160.webp?v=1789254381"},{"product_id":"culture-of-one-paperback","title":"Culture of One - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eCulture of One\u003c\/i\u003e 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378375557343,"sku":"9780143118930","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GhKWejkCFB9780143118930.webp?v=1789254538"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alice-notley.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}