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Genre/Form: | Poetry poetry Poésie |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Notley, Alice, 1945- In the pines. New York : Penguin Books, 2007 (OCoLC)608388863 Online version: Notley, Alice, 1945- In the pines. New York : Penguin Books, 2007 (OCoLC)608578845 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alice Notley |
ISBN: | 9780143112549 0143112546 |
OCLC Number: | 87770847 |
Description: | xii, 131 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | In the pines -- The black trailor -- Household -- Entering the jewel -- The old one -- In forgetting -- God has money -- In the garden -- Inside -- Immigrants -- This plot -- Conspiracy -- Locust -- Hemostatic -- Our violent times -- Ladonna -- When you could hear them all the time -- The girls -- My lady shadow -- Dialogue in the glass dimensions -- The portion accruing to ears -- I can't speak to you -- To preachers -- You have no idea -- To the poem -- The main offense -- In the circuit -- Song -- Culture scarf -- Beneath you. |
Series Title: | Penguin poets. |
Responsibility: | Alice Notley. |
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"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." -Publishers Weekly "Notley as artist is like a hero on a fantastical journey. She descends into subterranean worlds of dream and ascends to heights of philosophical thought, but also remains rooted in the dirt of politics and the tedium of the everyday life." -Booklist Read more...
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Somewhere between a prayer, a fable, and an evocation...
Alice Notley has helped guide and challenge contemporary poetics for over thirty years. Her poems exist somewhere between a prayer, a fable, and an evocation. In the Pines continues with this; it is mythic, of-the-earth. Directly comparing In the Pines to other poetic work is difficult,...
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Alice Notley has helped guide and challenge contemporary poetics for over thirty years. Her poems exist somewhere between a prayer, a fable, and an evocation. In the Pines continues with this; it is mythic, of-the-earth. Directly comparing In the Pines to other poetic work is difficult, but fans of Elizabeth Willis and Jack Spicer will be pleased with this collection for its lyricism and magic. Notley has created a triptych, an environment, wherein transformation is a constant. Protean and feminine in its narrative, we read of speakers shifting, flickering almost, from state to state, sometimes so fast not even they know what state they inhabit: "I'm turning into something I never foresaw. When I get there I'll recognize it." This collection never settles--it pulses from prose to verse, from concept to concrete thing-itself. In the Pines stalks, haunts, and sings.
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