Disobedience (Penguin Poets)
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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0141002298
ISBN13:9780141002293
Release Date:October 2001
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Totally Intriguing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This is the book that really threw me into Notley's poetry. I could not put it down and had to read everything by her after this. It was tricky to get into at first, but once you allow yourself to wade into this world it's hard to put it down. The book length poem is filled with recurring images, fictional characters, aspects of the self, and motifs that all create a collage. The overall effect engages you with its witticisms, lyricalism and coded language that you want to uncover like a detective gathering clues. I loved reading this with "Mysteries of Small Houses" and "Descent of Allette", because they are all experimenting with the poet's role in the world and with poetry's historical use to explore self.
Cutting thought
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
There's a future in this poetry, a future for poetry, if the new poets will read it, speak it, and try to understand it. The Descent of Alette equally marvelous.
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