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Courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. Nina Baym. They wanted people to come and put the dances on, trying to help preserve them actually (there were about fifteen or twenty Indian Tribes in Arizona). Notley claims it was boring and returned to Iowa City where she met the poet Ted Berrigan who began as an instructor at the school that fall. 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. STEIN, Gertrude. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. So I grew up as friends with Native Americans, and imbued with certain things; I was also attuned to what had happened, without knowing fully, because there was a kind of sadness among the Mojaves in my town, along with immense curiosity and interest among some Anglos. 55DR: There was a pop song in the 1960s by the Three Dog Night, Joy to the World, which went: If I was the King of the World, Id throw away all the cars, thus broadcasting the idea. The editors discuss Amy Newman's "Howl," Alice Notley's "This Fire," and a series of limericks by Anthony Madrid. I was her teacher, though Im not much older than she is, about four years older. The Indie rock group, (2005), collects a series of sensitive essays she wrote about her own poetry and that of others from her poetic. Descent would grow to be Notley's most widely read and taught collection after its reprinting by Penguin in 1996. He would fly to Paris, find me, and we would have dinner; also, he had a group of Paris friends. She is, to borrow the title from her 2011 collection, a culture of onea singular voice and the medium of many. 68DR: 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. El jugador controla a Alice durante todo el juego corriendo, saltando, esquivando y atacando. Tracing the fight for equality and womens rights through poetry. Batsford Ltd., 1945. In 1972, Berrigan and Notley married and moved to Chicago, where they lived until 1976. Ultimately, I am expressing a desire to run into the desert and get some space, the space everybody needs around themselves and unfortunately are not getting. My collages actually reflect the situation of overabundance. Notley's work is famously heterogeneous, but it's possible to see a gradual. (2006). After the war, that tradition was exhausted. 81DR: Apart from what happens during the performance, can writing poetry be like a dance? turn right, that dream building cutglass window in door. These ideas are all very tangible, yet somewhat unconnected when conversed about and referred to. Its flowing world is populated by characters who seem to personify indeterminate pronouns (like a shaman named Qui) and theres a general defiance of set categories: and if one who renews refuses / gender? NOTLEY, Alice. DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat.. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing Alette. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979, p. 911-1772. 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. His poems are totally him; his voice is unique; his sensibility is unique; and he was always basing it on something else; he wanted to be like Frank [OHara] intensely, but there was no way he could be like Frank. New Addresses was influenced by my autobiographical book that almost won the Pulitzer Prize, Mystery of Small Houses (1998), getting him to dredge up his past, bravely. DR: Right, thats a strong, colonizing streak in Western culture. Photo by Gezett/ullstein bild via Getty Images, Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice, Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment, 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Winner: Alice Notley, The Goddess Who Created This Passing World, Have Made Earth as the Mirror of Heaven, Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice, Democracy at 10th & A: A Discussion of Alice Notleys poem "I the People", July/August 2015: "Cranberry Cranberry Cranberry". , CA, c.1985, courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. My book Dsamre (1992) features Robert Desnos and uses patterns from the Lais of Marie de France. One year at a big Thanksgiving dinner, I sat next to the poet Michel Deguy; many of his friends in Paris were met for instance when playing tennis. Nina Baym. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? 24DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. 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. Alice Notleywas born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California. Indeed, you are often spoken about as an engaged poet, like your late husband, Doug Oliver. 107DR: Lets see, arrive the exactitude of pitch the tune in words alone; thats In the Pines too. Im closely influenced by them, and working with Apollinaire at the moment. Written after the death of her brother, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from PTSD, Notleys searing elegy challenges the Western poetic tradition by drawing attention to its complicity in war making and empire building. 117DR: Its a beautiful indictment of bureaucracies and their inhuman treatment. 89DR: Right, thats a strong, colonizing streak in Western culture. AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. One major joy and challenge of reading Notleys work is the wild sense of freedom her poems generate: from line to line, word to word, anything can happen. I think its just all out there. He would fly to Paris, find me, and we would have dinner; also, he had a group of Paris friends. Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth edition, vol.2. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be our present-day Homer. Can we know where the crystal ark of language is taking us? He gave everybody permission to be funny. 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. That is just the beginning. 32That gives you a sense of the sound. 99AN: Frank caught how great Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems (1962) was. In this midcareer lyric, the poet plays with the idea of citizenship in the everyday, exploring how, as poets and pedestrians, family members and lovers, people always exist somewhere betweenIandwe. , Fifth edition, vol.2. 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. NOTLEY, AliceNationality: American. KOCH, Kenneth. 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. 88AN: Yes, and that is effectively what the Aeneid, which is certainly a splendid and beautiful poem, does. Instead, she gravitated increasingly toward archetype and mytha search for primordial language bubbling under the surface. Notley's elegiac work during this era, including her poems "Beginning With a Stain" and "At Night the States," is some of her most widely celebrated. Her book, Coming After (2005), collects a series of sensitive essays she wrote about her own poetry and that of others from her poetic milieu. NOTLEY, Alice and Ted BERRIGAN, editors. In fact he taught the same undergraduate classes for years and years, refusing to teach graduate students becausehe saidthey couldnt learn anything, were already set in their ways. 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). Ill read a part of it: Alice Notley, Where Leftover Misery Goes inGrave of Light, Wesleyan University Press, 2006 (p.292-293), reproduced with permission of the author. 31AN: This poem was later published in Reason and Other Women (2010). She delves into a range of topics in a single poem, such as "The Prophet", she converses about toilets, different countries, and the idea of marriage, and somehow she's able to bring all of these farfetched ideas together. I made this in about 2005. DR: Yes, those are full of imagery: evidently, they have all kinds of signification. My poems are full of creosote bushes, and athel trees which are extremely ugly trees that somehow got there, who knows how, maybe by way of the Colorado River which goes right by where I grew up. DR: Its a beautiful indictment of bureaucracies and their inhuman treatment. At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. Notley's 1985 play "Anne's White Glove," a commission by Ada Katz's Eye and Ear Theater navigated the pain of Berrigan's death, and her collections Margaret & Dusty (Coffee House, 1985), Parts of a Wedding (Unimproved Editions, 1986), and At Night the States (The Yellow Press, 1987) contain material written during a period of mourning. And that other one was something I just picked up from the sidewalk. He came around when something bad happened to us. Its from Homer. Do you remember when he wrote the second The Circus? The two worked on two magazines together, Gare du Nord and Scarlet, and self-published a compendium of their own books, The Scarlet Cabinet, which contained Notley's Descent of Alette. Alice Notley (born 8 November 1945) is an American poet. Theres no garbage. Then he writes poetry in the variable foot which is a huge influence on my later work. AN: She lost her father younger than Ted lost his. . I thought that that printing added something, though: I enjoyed turning the book to read the poem. 56AN: When its around me, I take it in. He could write any time he wanted to; Im like that too. There are passing moments that neednt be dwelled upon, but if youre going to go to war against a couple of countries, I think you merit an accusation of doing just that. In the mixed abstractions of a mid-eighties poem called Congratulating Wedge, Notley turns instability into strength: Im ashamed to keep on babblingas if Ive always been oneself,diamond flow through. She made one change when she worked for James Schuyler, and she adopted a version of his short line, though after that theres little change, except a few years ago, when she started putting in spaces between thoughts: in a new way she created some disjunction she had never had before. Poems.. There was a piece of paper on my door that said: in your building there were two Jewish children who were taken to the camps; we are going to have a ceremony for the unveiling of a plaque on the rue de Chabrol. There are others over there. Notley and Berrigan were frequent instructors at Naropa University's summer writing program. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. AN: To quote Jack Kerouac, avoid the authorities. If you have the talent you have to avoid them. A woman whose work completely knocked me out. Its deliberate, in order to find something out. Notley gave birth to their first son, Anselm Berrigan, named after Anselm Hollo, in 1972, as well. You know Newman makes these large, abstract works. AN: I dont think thats true of her poetry though, and I dont think thats what John did exactly. Alice Notley: That's the future. NOTLEY, Alice. 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. Of course, we salute their past: all the greats, Guillaume Apollinaire and Pierre Reverdy, and some well-known others. DR: You quote the powerful, assertive voice of Marianne Moore in a poem. Perhaps some of Notleys techniques have been absorbed into contemporary poetrys vocabulary, but, as long as conformity threatens, Notley will continue to push against it, or perhaps simply beyond it. Ive always had trouble getting materials here. In an important essay titled The Poetics of Disobedience, Notley says this shift began with her book The Descent of Alette (1992). 112AN: Ah, thats from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), from the lady with antlers; that was strange: I fell asleep, dreamed of being a woman with antlers, then when I woke up I opened Le Monde, lo and behold, there was a picture of a model with antlers on her head and she was in a fashion show that day on the runwayshe was wearing antlers: it was a premonitory dream. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once. [10] Some of Notley's most famous engagements with the poetry community while in NYC were her workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, which were attended by dozens of young poets including Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones, Steve Carey, and Susie Timmons. As she writes in the preface, one of the books few footholds, This poem goes pretty far, and terrifies me, but it should be read for pleasure., Although Personism tells us that simply acting like ourselves is enough to make poetry, its lesson is also surprisingly difficult to absorb. In the case of John Ashbery, theres a poem called Syringa (1977) with an Orphean motif. 50AN: Well possiblyI take in a lot of things that I dont know about, or that I dont remember. Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres, the postmodern series, the newly invented epic, political observation and invective, and the poem as novel. Alice Notley continues to live in Paris and makes frequent trips to the U.S. to give readings and lectures. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. My current process is to write in the morning. In addition to collections of poetry, Notley has published the autobiography Tell Me Again (1982), the play Annes White Glove (1985), and a book of essays on poets and poetry, Coming After (2005). American Studies Journal, AccueilNumros1ReconnaissancesInterview of Alice Notley. New York: Penguin, 2007. I knew him in New York, where I saw him from time to time; but after I moved here, he sought me out. Alma, or The Dead Women. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Scenes, tones, and pronouns shift without warning. 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. The poem is addressed, at least in part, to Berrigan, who died in 1983, and the speaker longs to make sense of a country without him in it. The Goddess Who Created This Passing World BRETON, Andr. Notleys writing at this time begins to shift away from singular poems and toward book-length projects with overarching styles and themes. I knew that I was also doing something like what they used to talk about in college: the taking of two disjunctive things then the jamming of them together: that was part of our critical education at the time; in fact, John Ashbery would have had it too, probably, though he was twenty years older than I was. The magazine ran for eight issues, three of which were published while Notley and Berrigan lived in England. And they participated, when they lived in Prescott, AZ, in an organization which did Native American Dances every year, called The Smoki, which my father was in, and which had been instituted by the businessmen in Prescott in the 1930s. It was reissued in 2021 by the London-based small press Distance No Object. DR: In your work, theres something in the interstices between thoughts thats both intriguing and active. There are different paces and reading styles possible; the performance can be different each time. Why hurry them along? The Circus (1971). All these disjunctions allow her work to be so radically personal; for example, this poem is at once a portrait of a mind in motion, a raw depiction of motherhood, a critique of patriarchal sexual politics, and a meditation on the sudden arrival of joy. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? Alice Notley, Polaroid photo taken in Needles, CA, c.1985, courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. Benjamin Voigt grew up on a small farm in upstate New York. 44AN: That photo in the middle is me at age ten, I think. She was the only woman in her genre and one of two in the entire graduate writing department. NOTLEY, Alice. He spent two years in India, which changed everything about him. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. Notleys struggle for solace and understanding is all the more moving for its contradictions, confusions, and stutters. MYLES, Eileen. When he died in 2000, Alice Notley was sufficiently settled into Paris to remain there. 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). 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. Wholeness is not the same as unity. Better to think of the poem as what Notley calls a bricolage, with hints of medieval allegory, jokey slang, strange jags of French. The designer of the cover made an extract basically, making it wrap around the book cover, which was an attractive idea. The same style extends to other poems from this time period, such as White Phosphorus. She lives in Paris. DR: Where leftover misery goes Can a poem be like a dance? In the Pines, Montreal: Club Roll, 2012. 43DR: Yes, those are full of imagery: evidently, they have all kinds of signification. Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems and The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954): that book is fantastic; he caught the new line, which he refers to in one of his letters. You know Newman makes these large, abstract works. which is certainly a splendid and beautiful poem, does. I thought that that printing added something, though: I enjoyed turning the book to read the poem. Alice scared me. After the workshop ended, Notley teamed up with students to print copies of their works on the mimeograph machine in the St. Mark's basement. In the spring of 1976, Notley and her family returned to New York, and her husband Ted fell ill with hepatitis, a disease he suffered from until his death in 1983. 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. It emasculates her. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. [3] Notley and Berrigan spent the several months between Long Island and Chicago in Bolinas, California, which is where Berrigan officially printed 165 Meeting House Lane. [3] The Art of Poetry: John Ashbery. Ed. 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. The words at night the states serve as a refrain that marks the beginning of each stanza. . Notley edited seven of the issues with Berrigan taking over one while Notley was pregnant with their first son. 64AN: He was a good friend. I was her teacher, though Im not much older than she is, about four years older. New York: American Poets Project Library of America, 2004. Why? Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. always reinventing my practice, discovering what I believe is true and I would like some help. Whereupon, she just totally melted. 70DR: Was the teaching of poetry workshops something that connected you to Kenneth Koch? I thought that they were voices of dead French people, but they just came from everywhere; the voices came for that poem. I had this education, so I could have been doing something else but did not want to, was animated by a desire to write poetry, which is truly valuable: I was writing peoples culture for the future. In 1986, Notley led a workshop where participants were required to write an entire book during the course of their meetings. As 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. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. 78When we moved to Needles, there had been a cry house which was a place where the Mojaves would go to cry when somebody died, and there was now this pile of boards: my mother was completely fascinated by the cry house, thus she would use that phrase; one of the first stories I wrote on route to the University of Iowas Writers Workshop for an MFA as a prose writer was about Needles, concerning a white man who goes to the cry house to cry. Notley wrote extensively of her childhood and early life in her book Tell Me Again (Am here, 1982). She distrusts change. Cellophane-covered CD. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. Dismiss. 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. But it, too, is elliptical, resisting the familiar satisfactions of narrative: its subway-goers appear and disappear, fragment and melt away under the watch of a seemingly all-powerful tyrant. I was one of his friends in Paris. 1Alice Notley is a major American poet of our day, who has been living in Paris since the early 1990s, when she moved there with her second husband, the English poet, Doug Oliver (1937-2000), because Paris was where his professorial career was taking him. where it was horizontal on the page. AN: Yes, and that is effectively what the. After the war, that tradition was exhausted. 122DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. I wrote a poem about it in. Alice Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. DR: Eileen Myles is another poet who comes from an Irish, working-class, New England background and lost her father. However, I dont know what I was listening to when I was beginning to write. 94AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. Death, grief, and spirituality were terrain that the fast talk of New York School poetics hadnt fully engaged; so, too, was the political and feminist consciousness growing in Notleys work. Among an influential group of Paris friends like your late husband, Doug.. 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