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Disobedience
Disobedience | Alice Notley
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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.
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Disobedience | Alice Notley
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“It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against... everything.“

A happy birthday today to one of my favourite poets, Alice Notley.

vivastory Love Alice Notley. I'm planning on rereading Descent of Alette soon. 2y
Bibliobear @vivastory Such a wonderful book! I was just looking at a new book, a collection of lectures on poetics from the Naropa school edited by Anne Waldman titled New Weathers which includes a piece from Alice. Hoping to check that out soon. 2y
vivastory That sounds really interesting. I recall many years ago there were audio recordings of quite a few of the lectures from Naropa school online. I downloaded & listened to a number of them. It would def be convenient to have the best of them collected in an anthology. 2y
Bibliobear @vivastory I believe you can still find a lot of those audio recordings up at the PennSound website, which is such a great resource. I was looking at the table of contents for the New Weathers anthology and it definitely piqued my interest. There are a handful of other favourites there in addition to Alice Notley such as Lyn Hejinian, Eleni Sikelianos, and Lisa Jarnot. 2y
vivastory I haven't looked at the PennSound site in awhile, but I recall Leonard Schwartz program Cross Cultural Poetics was a favorite. I will have to look at the site to see what has been added over the past few years. When I first discovered it, I downloaded quite a few mp3s of various readings & interviews to listen to. I'm glad that it's been maintained. 2y
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