You know Newman makes these large, abstract works. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 99: Eileen Myles.. Berrigan's death in 1983 struck the poetry community exceptionally hard and over the next decade, Notley would suffer the loss of many others who were close to her. KOCH, Kenneth. But her writing exerts intense attraction. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be our present-day Homer. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. AN: Yes and a certain way of being cocky, which was very Irish, you know, a certain way of being witty, sort of a blunt kind of wittiness. 214, fall 2015, p.34-121. The Goddess who created this passing world, Said Let there be lightbulbs & liquefaction, Life spilled out onto the street, colors whirled, Toys and rose The zoo body zigzags. I didnt know any French; I had no French when I came here, basically, in my late forties. If this poem demonstrates her abiding interest in metaphysics, it also speaks to the immediate political realities of being a woman writer. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. One day she took a lot of pills in a quasi-suicide attempt, when I was there, and then she just had to be rescued from this life of working a lot, not having enough, and too little company. AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. One of the lines in that particular poem is actually straight from Dylan, which I finally just say: I know no one can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell. Id been quoting from the song all the way through in the whole poem. Andrew Whiteman and Ariel Engle, whove done something mesmerizing; also, my son Eddie is both a poet and an indie musician: I know about some indie people from about 2000, not so much after that. [2], After Notley's graduation, she and Berrigan spent periods of time in New York City and Buffalo. DR: He was deeply inspired by the Hindu tradition, which was brave and opens the culture up. [16] Over two nights, November 14 and 15, 2016, Notley read The Descent of Alette in its entirety at The Lab in San Francisco. In the Pines, Montreal: Club Roll, 2012. Ted had left Sandy; I was living in sin with Ted, which Peggy didnt seem to mind at all, as she liked me a lot. My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. The designer of the cover made an extract basically, making it wrap around the book cover, which was an attractive idea. 48AN: I read it when I was about twenty-three, in English. 102I re-read Wars I have Seen (1945) a couple of years ago because she was being bashed in the States again: they were underlining her Vichy connections in order to make her into a kind of villain, without any regard for how difficult it must have been: a lesbian living with another lesbian, in her sixties, in a country that wasnt her own country, Jewish, thus a prime candidate for the camps. There were various famous people now that were in it like Susie Timmons. It bears a dedication to James Schuyler and Anne and Fairfield Porter, who were also residing together on Long Island at the time. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. I had just been in the States. 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? 25AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. Est construido en ambas orillas del ro Nore. He gave everybody permission to be funny. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. 64AN: He was a good friend. That is just the beginning. Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. AN: Probably, I wouldnt dance, but Anne might. Its probably Notleys best-known work, perhaps because its one of the easiest to follow. She describes it as an immense act of rebellion against dominant social forces, against the fragmented forms of modern poetry, against the way a poem was supposed to look according to both past and contemporary practice. The narrator, Alette, finds herself in a feminist epic, on a subway, traveling deeper and deeper in the tunnels, into an underworld filled with caves and otherworldly characters. Batsford Ltd., 1945. The Desert Music and Other Poems. NOTLEY, Alice. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. AN: His werent poetry workshops: he taught undergraduate courses at Columbia. I have some Cherokee Blood, perhaps one-sixteenth Cherokee. McKinley. Logic sees cities destroyed as poems are stolen; a bloodied performer attempts to win over a non-existent audience in Perhaps Not for You. to get there. DR: There was a pop song in the 1960s by the Three Dog Night. is to take away from her the founding of a city, and transform her into this love suicide, and to rob her of her power. I gave a talk on his poetry last month, in New York, which I wrote during the cold snap, when it was too cold to go out for three days. But I met himI met everybodyaround 1968. In the serious, reflective poem, Your Dailiness (1971), you mention finally understanding Willem de Koonings painting, Excavation, in a Chicago museum. 76AN: Well I grew up in the Southwest. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. and Laurence B. HOLLAND. Over the course of Alice Notley's long and prolific career she's written more than 25 books since 1971 readers have assigned her any number of identities: native of the American West,. I thought that they were voices of dead French people, but they just came from everywhere; the voices came for that poem. How do we make sense of ourselves in relation to huge abstract institutions such as democracy, the state, and marriage? The Prophet. How Spring Comes. Made a halo around our syntax and ourselves as we laughed. In spring 2001, she received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award. Need a transcript of this episode? 58AN: I actually listened to Monteverdi to get the cadences that were before The Descent of Alette: particularly in White Phosphorus (1988) and at the end of Beginning with a Stain (1987). That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. 67My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). While Notley had written on motherhood prior to Songs, this book was her first to focus fully on the matter and is the first full-length book of a New York School-affiliated poet to take on the task of addressing poetry's sexism and the pressures and setbacks of motherhood in both personal and creative life. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa. DR: Apart from what happens during the performance, can writing poetry be like a dance? Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in. New York: TPR, 2009, p.174-202. Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. [3] However, New York Poetry authorized one to draw from others, taking a bit from this one, and from that one, which I did for a long time. The Paris Review Interviews vol. Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. AN: The whole book is about her, actually: she and Medea keep coming back. DR: Yes, that brings me back to what I was saying earlier about Andr Bretons. At the same moment, at Saint Marks, Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, and I taught poetry workshops. Actually, when I read The Descent of Alette, high-school students get similarly entranced. There are different paces and reading styles possible; the performance can be different each time. DR: Historically, painting is central to cultural New York and to New York poetry. As in I the People, the speaker in this masterpiece questions the relationship between person and nation and between private and publicbut this time in the face of great personal loss. Alice Notley: It's an artifact and it's kind of torn up, called "lost lace." It's supposed to look like it . Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. 33DR: I think for the reader those part-words can function to foreground an elsewhere. You have a poem called Cherokee (2006). I dreamed about the children afterwards, you know, there were children being chased in this building. New York: Knopf, 1998. 43DR: Yes, those are full of imagery: evidently, they have all kinds of signification. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Robert Haas, Guest Editor. She distrusts change. When I read. Notley's experimentation with poetic form, seen in her books 165 Meeting House Lane, When I Was Alive, The Descent of Alette, and Culture of One, ranges from a blurred line between genres, to a quotation-mark driven interpretation of the variable foot, to a full reinvention of the purpose and potential of strict rhythm and meter. After the war, that tradition was exhausted. But her writing exerts intense attraction. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writers Workshop, University of Iowa. interview (2015) she says that she learned from John Ashbery never to complete a thought, which is a rich idea. 61Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. DR: Thats what Ted Berrigan was about: taking things from here and there, picking them up, and making them his own. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. As in her feminist epic The Descent of Alette, the quotation marks here both interrupt and sustain. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. In 1986, Notley led a workshop where participants were required to write an entire book during the course of their meetings. I think I know how to do things with my voice that are entirely musical. There's an unfinishedness. That gives you a sense of the sound. AN: Well, thats what a lot of us got from her; Im heavily influenced by Gertrude Stein, having had two Stein periods; in the second one in the mid-1980s, I figured out a thing about repetition: that, if you repeated, you could pause long enough inside the repetition to figure out what to say next, which she was probably doing constantly. When I was a young poet, I couldnt figure out what to title anything, and I discussed this with Ted, who said: You should write to Ron Padgett and get a list of titles, which I did; he just made up all these titles for me. YouTube. NOTLEY, Alice. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. 81DR: Apart from what happens during the performance, can writing poetry be like a dance? I always liked his paintings. Better to think of the poem as what Notley calls a bricolage, with hints of medieval allegory, jokey slang, strange jags of French. Recent books continue to be at least somewhat character centered. Now there are all these plaques in my neighborhood saying: Here 300 French school children were sent to the camps. I woke up one day. Jobs People Learning Dismiss Dismiss. 20DR: Eileen Myles is another poet who comes from an Irish, working-class, New England background and lost her father. Then I found all the spots around the world in them and talked about them as being set in the world as a whole, saying that was a fitting poetry for now, when were all crossing borders all the time: spanning geography is the main event today, because there are so many people. For instance this collage that you put on the cover of Grave of Light. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. 123AN: I wrote an essay about her work in a book of essays called Coming After (2005), and I have essays in it about her and Joanne Kyger, Ted Berrigan, Lorenzo Thomas, Frank OHara, and some others. , 1998. 57DR: Now I heard you say that the cadences for The Descent of Alette emerged from Monteverdi. NOTLEY, Alice. 111DR: To go on with my list: We are secretly holding the ghost dance, take care of the pines where we sleep, I have the Antlers she.. His zips are like obelisks; theyre like sculptures inside the paintings. Chicago European Edition #3. I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. She was in my workshop. Notley wrote extensively about pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing at a time when the poetry world was often inhospitable to women. Are its voices one or many? The Indie rock group AroarA put music to her fascinating piece, In the Pines (2007). She received a B.A. I went downstairs. You have a poem called Cherokee (2006). Ted had left Sandy; I was living in sin with Ted, which Peggy didnt seem to mind at all, as she liked me a lot. AN: Well, I broke it. 90AN: Virgil was just this poet and he had to contend with Augustus Caesar. She has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. When I read The Descent of Alette I am tempted to treat the quotation marks between phrases as breath-markers like on a musical score. damn whether they eat or not. I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. Notley's work is famously heterogeneous, but it's possible to see a gradual. poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too Other beings begin to materialize, and it seems that they are all survivors of a global disaster. Its rare when a book summary isnt entirely sure whats going on inside, and such enigmas are either an irritant or central to Notleys mystique, depending on your taste. DR: Speaking of Anne Waldman somehow makes me think of the presence of Native Americans in your work. The incentives to engage in selfish, destructive action are as strong as they always have been. 63DR: Your attitude towards staleness in the academic world, your sensitivity towards these questions of history and politics, indeed your measure and courage for speaking out reminds me of one first-generation New York School poet in particular, Kenneth Koch. Raw language is the final material we have; it is only by shaping and reshaping it that we can hope to rebuild our world. In Notleys hands, the free-roving speech of poets like OHara became a new way of exploring the permeability of identity on the page. Perpetually strapped for cash, the two took on whatever small jobs they could to support the family. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). BRETON, Andr. In these poems, as in much of Notleys work, details from daily life enter in fragments that can be both entertaining and jarringly serious. One of her main currents of experimentation has revolved around the search for a feminine epic, one that could serve as an alternative to the male stories that have dominated the history of poetry since Homer. Also, just before leaving New York, she realized the ambition of writing a feminist epic in a book-length poem, The Descent of Alette (1996). In the middle section, which is in prose, there are three people: me, Medea, and Dido, my gripe being that she founded a city, Carthage. Which is something that John Ashbery would probably have agreed with, in a way. 77For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. After the war, that tradition was exhausted. AN: He was a good friend. His reviews and interviews have appeared in Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, and Pleiades. She is the author of more than thirty-five 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 There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. El jugador controla a Alice durante todo el juego corriendo, saltando, esquivando y atacando. where it was horizontal on the page. In response, another woman informs: "'he . They were the CDs that my son made and sent me; there are a lot of miss-hearings of Bob Dylan songs, as well as just a lot of folk songs that I already knew, in that work. This novel in poems, as its jacket copy describes it, covers the life of Marie, a woman who lives in a shack in the town dump. I think all poets do that; its also something out of the tradition of folk music. At that point Alice Notley was finding New York less amenable and was keen to go somewhere else. These ideas are all very tangible, yet somewhat unconnected when conversed about and referred to. About two-thirds of the way through the book theres a dream that has to do with a poet that has written a poem called disobedience: the poet was Kenneth in the dream, but, such is dream logic, it was really me. American Literature between the Wars, 1914-1945. Gen. Ed. All the political problems are based in history. Your brain becomes taffy. 37DR: Historically, painting is central to cultural New York and to New York poetry. 41DR: He has said that he started doing collages in his twenties and continued throughout his life. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetryalthough she has always denied being involved with the New York School or any specific movement in general. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Robert Haas, Guest Editor, The Best American Poetry of 2001. Reading The Descent of Alette was like listening to Alice Coltrane for fourteen hours while riding the NYC subway at 3AM in the 1980s. Im working on arcane things at the moment which I find hard to talk about. In addition to poetry, Notley has written a book of criticism (Coming After, University of Michigan, 2005), a play ("Anne's White Glove"performed at the Eye & Ear Theater in 1985), a biography (Tell Me Again, Am Here, 1982), and she has edited three publications, Chicago, Scarlet, and Gare du Nord, the latter two co-edited with Douglas Oliver. 84AN: You dont have to breathe between them. Cathy Park Hong has some thoughts for you, and some thoughts on how best to share them. 34AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. The Art of Poetry No. They really like The Descent of Alette, because its like a video game. New York: American Poets Project Library of America, 2004. I started noticing my dreams before I met Ted [Berrigan], but he used his dreams, and I just started doing it more after I was with him; then, after he died I did it even more. Notley. Its from Homer. Notleys work is famously heterogeneous, but its possible to see a gradual shift in her work, beginning in the mid-eighties, away from the New York Schools emphasis on ordinary detail and the surfaces of daily city life. Way too . That's the future, babe. . Its small and a bit fragile. Theres that magical phenomenon with small children, before they get to be about four, where, if you start singing, they suddenly look at you, hooked. But it goes Of asphodel, that greeny flower I come my sweet to sing. Its a long line that can take in short lines, which I did in Alette. In March 2021, Notley was a guest blogger forHarriet. STEIN, Gertrude. Eileen Myles wrote of their experience in Notley's workshops in their books Chelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Press, 2004; Ecco, 2015) and Inferno (O/R Books, 2010). New York: Scribner Poetry, 2001, p.120-124. 72As for my teaching at the Saint Marks poetry project, I gave assignments from week to week and I made the students bring in those rather than the poems they wrote on their own, to hold discussion without my having to criticize them too much. I wrote a poem about it in. 214, fall 2015, p.34-121. We know how inane the decision was that everybody would have a car, completely destroying the planet. Notley's early work laid both formal and theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic life. I dont give a But it goes Of asphodel, that greeny flower I come my sweet to sing. Its a long line that can take in short lines, which I did in, . Frank had a characteristic, manly idea of existing in the world despite what you might call his femininity, and I think that Ted understood it as something like being a Jimmy Cagney or something from the movies: Ted knew how to take that stance. I had just been in the States. NOTLEY, Alice and Ted BERRIGAN, editors. [citation needed]. 28DR: I think he interrupts the thought, but the thought he interrupts keeps going. Left-wing Radicalism in the United States: A Foreign Creed? DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. In fact, he had a whole career as a journalist, and knew how to research, to inform his opinions, and to look at events without a preexisting opinion: thus, I learned how to do that from him, though I find that few today are so intellectually honest. She edited and wrote the introduction for the reissue of Ted Berrigans The Sonnets (2000), as well as editing, with her sons, The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (2005). NOTLEY, Alice. AN: We were children then, basically. Or, as One says, Anyones a new poem today. That was written in the Food Stamp Office in 1985. I think that is what she said, because her greatest influence was Henry James: she takes his sense of the sentence and turns it into those stanzas. deserve to be there, having their names engraved in that particular way. At that stage, Allen Ginsberg, a really fine person, was extremely supportive. 124I also have a vinyl record, its like one of those jazz albums. These places are continuously operating as presences in your poetry, particularly the Needles of your youth, in California, the Lower Manhattan in the heyday of New York School Poetry, and the Paris of today. 53DR: The disturbing political and historical moment we are experiencing could disrupt many collective dreams. I quoted from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (1979). From this anarchic swirl, brilliant language emerges: Color sizzles my cells, a subversive moon appears, and a moment of playing the dulcimer / in a lemon grove startles. NOTLEY, Alice. The same style extends to other poems from this time period, such as White Phosphorus. I havent changed much since I first began writing: Photograph by Nigel Beale / The Biblio File. vol. I use the collages to go on without thinking with words. [6], While in Chicago, Notley started publishing her magazine Chicago, a legal-sized mimeograph publication which would continue through both her pregnancies and even her relocation to England. My current process is to write in the morning. (1986). For example my poem In the Pines has been set to music by AroarA, who are two members of the Canadian, indie group, Broken Social Scene. I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). NOTLEY, Alice. New York: TPR. 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And with popularity comes influence: one thinks of the sunny romanticism and Instagram-readiness of Having a Coke with You (the more abstract, difficult side of OHaras work has yet to gain influencer status). New York: Penguin, 1998. There was a black woman at a desk when I went in who said, What are you doing here? I just sat down and replied, Im a widow; Ive got two children; I know its been a year and a half since my husband died; Im trying to stay at home as much as I can and I have a part-time job (I was working for Allen Ginsberg at the time). Teds father worked for the Tip-Top Bread factory and died when he was fifty of a heart attack, after being laid off due to mechanization. This button displays the currently selected search type. The Art of Poetry: John Ashbery. Ed. Said Let there be lightbulbs & liquefaction. Anne Waldman says that one thing she learned at that point was that the Hindus say carry your enemy on your shoulder. Thats a counter-intuitive idea. , Saint Marks Poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. , Fifth edition, vol.2. At Night the States This is "THE PROPHET BY ALICE NOTLEY" by John Galvin on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. For some 45 years, she has striven against the forces that stifle idiosyncrasy. Her work warns of the ways in which our civilization and its conventional stories have failed us, but its also a reminder that the endless resources of language remain for those who have a little nerve. 110AN: I wouldnt be able to take the journey if I couldnt hear the poem thats all based on folk songs and not those lines, but I was writing In the Pines while I was doing the Hepatitis C treatment, where the drugs would depress you, but once a week you would have to take a shot which, they didnt tell you, would get you high for a half hour before you got sick. Her honors and awards include an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. New York: Scarlet Editions, 1992. DR: Your humor, in poems like The Prophet (which asks hilariously, Does a hippopotamus get the shakes?) is slightly less well known than your readiness to tackle political subjects. Its possible Im living in the apartment of someone who was taken away to the camps. Making oneself now,oh One. NOTLEY, Alice. The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. Notley is often categorized as a poet of the second generation of the New York School, along with writers such as Eileen Myles and Anne Waldman. AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. Thats what Ive done ever since in different ways. I was one of his friends in Paris. In her essay The Poetics of Disobedience, Notley writes, I've been trying to train myself for thirty or forty years not to believe anything anyone tells me. In this apocalyptic, darkly funny, and, indeed, gutsy poem from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Notley indicts logic itselfthe so-called common sense that reduces poetry to gender and experience to the known and erases whole cities in the whirlwind of war. 69AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. 95For me, Williams mostly writes by the word. (2006). . Or both but instantly. New York: New Directions, 1962. DR: You quote the powerful, assertive voice of Marianne Moore in a poem. 1967; University of Iowa, Iowa City, M.F.A . because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. When he died in 2000, Alice Notley was sufficiently settled into Paris to remain there. I picked ten poems at random to see how dispersed they were based on my working theory that they had a wide geographical scope. Its not around me much now. 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