The Indie rock group, (2005), collects a series of sensitive essays she wrote about her own poetry and that of others from her poetic. That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. The others were like me, though Hispanic and black. Alice Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. Or, as Notley puts it, the trick is to Try to get new language // closer to that of thought. Kenneth Koch Selected Poems. McKinley. Thats what Ive done ever since in different ways. 121AN: No, never: when I address enemies, I am not carrying them on my shoulder; Im being intensely annoyed by them. 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. ASHBERY, John. 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. NOTLEY, Alice. Sonnet White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). This guy is doing vinyl records of poets and hes done a series including one of me and one of Eileen [Myles]. 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. It seems nobody has any sense of tone of voice any more. Its possible Im living in the apartment of someone who was taken away to the camps. [1] She received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in spring 1967 and left New York City that fall for the fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. BAYM, Nina. Need a transcript of this episode? New York: TPR. New York: Scarlet Editions, 1992. Im working on arcane things at the moment which I find hard to talk about. (1986). [12] Her own book, entitled Parts of a Wedding, was published first in a small edition by Unimproved Editions then later as a section of the O Books anthology O One.[13]. And its influenced by dactylic hexameter. 29AN: He has complete syntactical thoughts, then he interrupts things at the conjunction. Notley citesin parta reading by Robert Creeley as early inspiration for her writing more poetry. Request a transcript here. Alice Notley is an extraordinary reader of her own work, which, in the last year, she has read in the U.S.A. (Providence, R.I., and Brooklyn, N.Y.), in the U.K. (Birmingham), and in France (The Pompidou Center, Paris). Alice Notley: That's the future. DR: With your interpolation of popular culture into epic poetry, I would expect you to be a household name here in France. Baby (1979). It also marks a shift in Notleys poetics away from the freewheeling chattiness of the New York School and toward something more visionary, historical, and grandly narrative. I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). Need a transcript of this episode? 91DR: You quote the powerful, assertive voice of Marianne Moore in a poem. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa. 75DR: Speaking of Anne Waldman somehow makes me think of the presence of Native Americans in your work. 15AN: 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. I dont know anything about French pop culture at all; Im necessarily estranged from American pop culture, but I do sometimes know whats going on in music. 54AN: Complicated as it is, I can sketch it out: basically, everything is just too dense on the planet, which has been a decision made and a byproduct of technology. 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. Mystery of Small Houses. Notleys work seems to suggest that correctives to the old narratives are possible but also that real fixity is always out of reach. She has lived most extensively in Needles, in New York, and since 1992 in Paris, France. 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. 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. The stream of shattered consciousness is occasionally punctuated by shaped picture-poems, variously representing a ship, a face, a winged coyote. I had it for a long time and it started to break. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing. Its not around me much now. Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. 24DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. Grave of light : new and selected poems, 1970-2005. The character One is a kind of joke (Notley has always had an oddball sense of humor), but a joke that underscores the flimsiness of a stable idea of the self. Notley wrote extensively about pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing at a time when the poetry world was often inhospitable to women. AroarA. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. I went downstairs. This is probably one reason that I change form and style so much, out of a desire to find a new beginning, which is always the true beginning. Did it influence you? 103DR: There are some lines from your poems, wrought like those in Stein, that one could carry in ones head all day and it would color that day; for example, that thinks but not only on words is one; all thats left of the old world are beautiful voices, is another that might change ones day. For instance this collage that you put on the cover of. You can read her biography, an interview with Notley, and more of her poems in the Poetry Foundation archive. I thought that they were voices of dead French people, but they just came from everywhere; the voices came for that poem. Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. The poet reads and discusses her work. Notley was born on November 8, 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. 32That gives you a sense of the sound. In a swerve from the feminine epic, For the Ride seems to want to speak from a place outside of gender, another shrugging-off of what readers have come to expect from Notley. Instead of second-guessing their style, we could talk about the way they handled the tasks. In a lecture titled Thinking and Poetry, Notley underscores the deep difficulty of following ones own direction: I find being a poet something that must start again all the time; Im There was one called How Green Was My Hair Brush? which was a Ron title. 12DR: Thats what Ted Berrigan was about: taking things from here and there, picking them up, and making them his own. 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. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/13862; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.13862, Universit Paris Nanterre and cole nationale suprieure des beaux-arts de Paris, Creative Commons - Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/, Voir la notice dans le catalogue OpenEdition, Plan du site Mentions lgales et Crdits Liens Flux de syndication, Politique de confidentialit Gestion des cookies, Nous adhrons OpenEdition Journals dit avec Lodel Accs rserv, You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search. The books were published under the imprint Unimproved Editions and Notley made cover art for the majority of the titles. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. Referring back to her writing in the 1970s in an interview with the Ampersand Review, Notley says she felt she was the only poet I knew of who used the details of pregnancy and motherhood as a direct, pervading subject in poems, on a daily basis, as if it were true that half the people in the world gave birth to others and everyone had been born. Poems from this time include Clinical Thermometer Set with Moonstone and How Spring Comes. This button displays the currently selected search type. AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. AN: Well I grew up in the Southwest. They ran away into abstract poetry: that makes a lot of sense to me. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. At that stage, Allen Ginsberg, a really fine person, was extremely supportive. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. The signature of her work is a restless reinvention and a distrust of groupthink that remains true to her forebears directive: to not give a damn. DR: He has said that he started doing collages in his twenties and continued throughout his life. Miles Davis live at Birdland or something. On Facebook, It was a collaboration of sorts, though I generally do not collaborate; I really hate it. 79DR: Where leftover misery goes Can a poem be like a dance? Notley's work stands as a testament to how difficult it is to be truly individual. [2], After Notley's graduation, she and Berrigan spent periods of time in New York City and Buffalo. I do write down my dreams, though I havent been dreaming much lately; but Ive been doing that for years. 61Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. In reframing and re-empowing Dido and Medea, she is writing a meditation on destruction. Her poems have grappled with how to depict and think about motherhood, and her influence for a later generation of poets exploring these same subjects is hard to overstate. 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. New York: TPR. 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. I dreamed about the children afterwards, you know, there were children being chased in this building. The Goddess who created this passing world. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. 76AN: Well I grew up in the Southwest. 3Alice Notleys poetry has evolved through many phases and experiments, as her output continues to be strong, and is increasingly studied academically. Can we know where the crystal ark of language is taking us? It was Alice Notley who would be in the spring session in 2007. 66AN: I started to be quite influenced by him at that point, and I think I influenced him in the writing of the book New Addresses: Poems, published in 2000. Notley was born in Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. For Frank OHara's Birthday. 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). 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. , Portland, WA: Fonograf Editions (Octopus Books), 2019. Then he writes poetry in the variable foot which is a huge influence on my later work. In a poem from the seventies, Notley mocks the downtown sensibility of the time with an older male poets rant: No women poets are any / good, if you want it / Straight, because they dont handle money.. Notleys struggle for solace and understanding is all the more moving for its contradictions, confusions, and stutters. In 1992, Notley moved to Paris with her second husband, the British poet and novelist Douglas Oliver (19372000), whom she met while living in England in 1974. Perhaps the greatest OHara disciple in this sense is the poet Alice Notley, who, in the course of forty-plus years and forty-plus books, has repeatedly cited OHara as an influence while following her own unconventional path. Alice Notleys influence on a later generation of poets exploring the subject of motherhood is hard to overstate. She was in my workshop. 108AN: Yes, towards the end of number fourteen, the last one. Theres no garbage. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. 115DR: Also Im coming back often to that poem, In this Paradise, about the food-stamp office. 118AN: It was definitely weird to get food stamps. Whats my plot? I had met him in 1969, then we stayed friends. New York: American Poets Project Library of America, 2004. Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in. 100DR: What do you think of Gertrude Stein and of the kind of permutations she does: almost like rolling things around in your mouth? American Studies Journal, AccueilNumros1ReconnaissancesInterview of Alice Notley. must start and will now by an awkward process make something, thinking DR: Eileen Myles is another poet who comes from an Irish, working-class, New England background and lost her father. It seemed that people like Joe Brainard were doing important, high-art collages and we could follow along without any pretention to be creating masterpieces. I dont know anything about French pop culture at all; Im necessarily estranged from American pop culture, but I do sometimes know whats going on in music. AN: To quote Jack Kerouac, avoid the authorities. If you have the talent you have to avoid them. The indeterminacy, one suspects, is the point. 25AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. 60AN: I do not expect to be well known in the universities because that context tends to be too academic, and generally French poetry is in a bad place. 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. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. DR: Did you like doing it? Reason and Other Women. Photographer unknown, Alice Notleys father doing the Hopi snake dance, c. 1945, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat. Oh Mercy. . After earning her BA from Barnard College and MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, Notley traveled extensively around the U.S. and abroad. Young poets on the Chicago scene regularly hung out with Notley and Berrigan at their home and many followed the couple back to New York City in the late 70s. Detroit was burning and poetry was on fire. She lives and works in Paris. To quote: If its a spiritual offense does it as wrongdoing take place more in more in the second leftover/ as a leftover and is the significance of the double now that I might be might the /one who offends Have you heard it read? DR: Right, thats a strong, colonizing streak in Western culture. 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. Although Notley is less known to a casual poetry readershipher inventiveness and audacity are matched by her difficulty she is one of the singular voices in contemporary American poetry. My parents were from Arizona. AN: He had no trust in his own ability to write things out, while he had faith in his ability to find things. Everyone who went there was either black or Hispanic. The Prophet. How Spring Comes. 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. Especially in the way that lucid means shining and bright. White Phosphorus AN: We were children then, basically. She distrusts change. 64AN: He was a good friend. 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. Making oneself now,oh One. At that point Alice Notley was finding New York less amenable and was keen to go somewhere else. If not, boo hoo. In 2015, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. WILLIAMs, William Carlos. It emasculates her. The former Presidents political and legal challenges are mounting, even as some polls indicate that he still has a lot of support among Republicans. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. There are different paces and reading styles possible; the performance can be different each time. NOTLEY, Alice. 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 Alice Notley has become one of Americas greatest living poets. DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat.. I always liked his paintings. So, there were people from all different professions at the table, a few Americans and some artistic peoplebut not that many. 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? 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. The others were like me, though Hispanic and black. 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. 67My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). turn right, that dream building cutglass window in door. These ideas are all very tangible, yet somewhat unconnected when conversed about and referred to. 99: Eileen Myles. The Paris Review. I wonder about it later, but actually it always seems like it is justified: I think the people that I mentioned in. I would write during that high, meanwhile I would listen to Bob Dylan tapes. He was my political education really. DR: Now I heard you say that the cadences for, AN: I actually listened to Monteverdi to get the cadences that were before, : particularly in White Phosphorus (1988) and at the end of Beginning with a Stain, . 69AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. 70DR: Was the teaching of poetry workshops something that connected you to Kenneth Koch? First, the way the fan that tapers at the top disorients the view, because the fan is supposed to open up, not reduce. I dreamed about the children afterwards, you know, there were children being chased in this building. The circle of younger poets who spent time with Notley and Berrigan included the aforementioned members of the Yellow Press team, Barbara Barg, Rochelle Kraut, Rose Lesniak, Bob Rosenthal, Steve Levine, Simon Schuchat, Tim Milk, and several others. This is typical of what happens when I make a collage. You and Ted published it in your review, AN: I started to be quite influenced by him at that point, and I think I influenced him in the writing of the book. As Notley writes in The Prophet (1981): One is you & all this & two & yet. The yet is where poetry begins. The text is visually striking with quotation marks surrounding each poetic foot, intended to slow the reader down and indicate the pace at which the book is to be read. Theres a poem where you talk about meeting Teds mother. I applied pressure so that the brokenness would have the shape I wanted; then I think I made the back part separately and decided to glue the fan on it. That is just the beginning. 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. 106AN: Thats from In the Pines (2007). Just like I did. The jacket copy attempts to sketch the books plot: the protagonist, named One, is suddenly within the Glyph. NOTLEY, Alice. I can do that with my speaking voice in poems. I picked ten poems at random to see how dispersed they were based on my working theory that they had a wide geographical scope. 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. Other possible issues: goofy works, "description," dreams (the new gen), school of Susie Timmons, rejuvenation of the "found work," the "line," how to be like Elinor [Nauen] and Maggie [Dubris], how to cultivate inventiveness, strategies for dry spell, dictionaries, diaries, little plays, calligrams, tiles, left-hand margins, how to get great theories and general self-improvement. The Descent of Alette. 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I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). KOCH, Kenneth. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. The first workshop that I taught was a crucial one for that generation actually. In the Pines, Montreal: Club Roll, 2012. 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. Need a transcript of this episode? 45DR: Its also what Andr Breton mentions, in his book, Nadja (1963): staying at the Htel des Grands Hommes with his surrealist friends, who wont get into the Panthon either. 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. Line Breaks in America: the Odds and Ends of Poetry, Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots, Conjunctions of the Literary and the Philosophical in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Writing, Creating the Child Audience: Media and the Invention of Modern American Childhood, Les mots pour le dire. 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 so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. Can we talk a little bit about the pop culture that figures in your work? Her children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmond Berrigan are both New York Poets of a younger generation. Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. 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