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DR: Such natural presences are important. 28DR: I think he interrupts the thought, but the thought he interrupts keeps going. Notley left Needles for New York City to attend Barnard College in 1963, desiring an escape from the isolation of her hometown. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. I thought that that printing added something, though: I enjoyed turning the book to read the poem. Request a transcript here. Alice. AN: I read it when I was about twenty-three, in English. DR: 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., (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. 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. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. [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. Its from Homer. 19AN: Peggy was great and, yes, Irish. 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. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979, p. 911-1772. Ill read a part of it: Alice Notley, Where Leftover Misery Goes in. MYLES, Eileen. 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. For instance this collage that you put on the cover of Grave of Light. You know Newman makes these large, abstract works. The others were like me, though Hispanic and black. One knows ithere, not chains,posh garlands. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing Alette. 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. My mother had broken her hip. 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. Whys not valid here. (1979), in talking about Marianne Moore, they say: Pound writes with the phrase, Williams writes with the line, H.D writes with the image, Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein write with the word, but Marianne Moore writes with the entire stanza, and I was just wondering if there was a unit that you use? The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. They ran away into abstract poetry: that makes a lot of sense to me. Everyone who went there was either black or Hispanic. New York: Scribner Poetry, 2001, p.120-124. The Prophet. How Spring Comes. Whats my plot? AN: Like dolmensyes, something like that. I grew up among Native Americans. Ive noticed it with my granddaughters. New York: TPR, 2009, p.174-202. [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. I had met him in 1969, then we stayed friends. Alice Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. I was wondering if your poems that address completely despicable people might be a case of carrying the enemy on the shoulder. This guy is doing vinyl records of poets and hes done a series including one of me and one of Eileen [Myles]. 104AN: That was below that bed: the voices were calling to me from below the bed. (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. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. He could write any time he wanted to; Im like that too. I grew up with the Mojaves, going to school with them. It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. By Alice Notley. My current process is to write in the morning. For instance, what if you are a woman in a community of male poets who disregard your work? Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in. 1976 saw Notley and Berrigan moving their family permanently to New York City's Lower East Side, where they'd live together until Berrigan's death in 1983. DR: Also Im coming back often to that poem, In this Paradise, about the food-stamp office. NOTLEY, Alice. Notley. xx. contact email: [email protected] The range, audacity, and radical commitments of Alice Notley's poetry are unmatched in contemporary literature. AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. 69AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. Her children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmond Berrigan are both New York Poets of a younger generation. 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. 59DR: With your interpolation of popular culture into epic poetry, I would expect you to be a household name here in France. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. New York: Scarlet Editions, 1992. 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.. Produced by Curtis Fox. 79DR: Where leftover misery goes Can a poem be like a dance? After having befriended the British poet and novelist Douglas Oliver during an earlier trip to England, Notley later reconnected with him, marrying in 1988 and moving to Paris in 1992. David Reckford, Interview of Alice Notley,Transatlantica [En ligne], 1|2019, mis en ligne le 01 juin 2020, consult le 01 mars 2023. 94AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. Notleys ceaseless productivity hints at a method counter to the heavy emphasis on, and even fetishization of, craft that forms the cornerstone of poetrys increasing professionalization. 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. Notley's collage art appeared in Rudy Burckhardt's film "Wayward Glimpses" and her illustrations have appeared on the cover of numerous books, including a few of her own. Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothque de La Pliade, 1988, p. 643-753. The incentives to engage in selfish, destructive action are as strong as they always have been. Notleys latest collection, For the Ride, a sprawling book-length poem, continues her trajectory into the unknown: anything happens here / in the magic of ones chaos. With its mess of divergent voices, picture-poems, and eccentric locutions, the result is baffling, beautiful, and always fascinatingly Notley. My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). Alls well.. American Literature between the Wars, 1914-1945. Gen. Ed. I could have a conversation about Royal Trux: a very chaotic indie group, sometimes awful, sometimes amazingly brilliant. I had just been in the States. I would give a task often based on traditional forms, or I would get an idea for a subject; and sometimes I used Kenneths books, because he was writing all those books then about teaching in nursing homes and to groups of small children. Within the text, a woman is desperate to take her daughter above ground, therefore she offers to pay the tyrant money. In the Pines, Montreal: Club Roll, 2012. NOTLEY, Alice. 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. That was written in the Food Stamp Office in 1985. Breaking Down Tracy K. Smiths Poem Solstice, Jia Tolentino on poetry as a refuge, and finding meaning in Tracy K. Smiths Solstice.. 34AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. Batsford Ltd., 1945. In 1972, Berrigan and Notley married and moved to Chicago, where they lived until 1976. He could write any time he wanted to; Im like that too. 115DR: Also Im coming back often to that poem, In this Paradise, about the food-stamp office. 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. Do you remember when he wrote the second The Circus? 116AN: I was there. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. AN: Yes, they were the two Irish of the set. because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. DR: I think he interrupts the thought, but the thought he interrupts keeps going. In March 2021, Notley was a guest blogger forHarriet. Songs And Stories Of The Ghouls. 64AN: He was a good friend. There were four kids, including a couple still at home. 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. Notleys recent work includes From the Beginning (2004), Alma, or the Dead Women (2006), Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, In the Pines (2007), Culture of One (2011), Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Benediction (2015), and Certain Magical Acts (2016). There was a black woman at a desk when I went in who said, What are. In 1972, Notley married Berrigan and the two moved to Chicago where Berrigan had been given Ed Dorn's newly vacated teaching position at Northeastern Illinois University. I can do that with my speaking voice in poems. Oakland: O Books, 1995. He taught some writing: one writing class, and one civilization and literature class. I think I know how to do things with my voice that are entirely musical. Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth edition, vol.2. Her search culminated in The Descent of Alette (1992), a book-length poem that tells the story of a woman questing through a sinister subway underworld. This Kind of Paradise. Parts of a Wedding. Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. It was a collaboration of sorts, though I generally do not collaborate; I really hate it. Indeed, French poetry has had some weird times, where it got so abstract. What does it mean to be one of millions that comprise a nation? 62I am furious about people calling their speech against Trump the resistance. However, I have a poem, which happened to be written before Trump was elected, in an anti-Trump-type anthology thats coming out because I figure any place I can get a poem published is an occasion to seize. My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writers Workshop, University of Iowa. Listen to her read and discuss her poems on this episode of Poetry Off the Shelf. 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. My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. Courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. 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. 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). DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. Im working on arcane things at the moment which I find hard to talk about. David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. 3Alice Notleys poetry has evolved through many phases and experiments, as her output continues to be strong, and is increasingly studied academically. DR: Yes, that brings me back to what I was saying earlier about Andr Bretons. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. I knew him in New York, where I saw him from time to time; but after I moved here, he sought me out. 53DR: The disturbing political and historical moment we are experiencing could disrupt many collective dreams. I think its just all out there. 214, fall 2015, p.34-121. I do write down my dreams, though I havent been dreaming much lately; but Ive been doing that for years. DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat. Oh Mercy. Request a transcript here. Reading The Descent of Alette was like listening to Alice Coltrane for fourteen hours while riding the NYC subway at 3AM in the 1980s. Ed. 49DR: In that book, the heroine is a true medium who can look at someones face and know things, and at the end she is taken off to the asylum; Andr Breton then rails for two pages about how misguided asylums are, which makes your collage seem to be broaching the question of clairvoyance in terms of surrealistic, poetic culture. Poems and prose about conflict, armed conflict, and poetry's role in shaping perceptions and outcomes of war. Particularly the middle one. I learned everything from the variable foot from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.. [Alice Notley] -- "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 . Your Dailiness. 165 Meeting House Lane. 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? 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. 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. She received a BA from Barnard College in 1967, and an MFA from the the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. His reviews and interviews have appeared in Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, and Pleiades. But people often say that Marianne Moore writes with the whole sentence. Alice Notley, Polaroid photo taken in Needles, CA, c.1985, courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. Peggy went to work at two jobs for ever; then there was a point where Johnny, the youngest, had to leave home, and she had a nervous breakdown, which was when I met her. 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. 73DR: Did you like doing it? AN: Yes, towards the end of number fourteen, the last one. I was wondering if your poems that address completely despicable people might be a case of carrying the enemy on the shoulder. New York: Scribner Poetry, 2001, p.120-124. I learned everything from the variable foot from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.. She lives in Paris. AN: You dont have to breathe between them. When I was writing such pieces and reading them they changed a lot; but it was about trying to get how the mind works, which meant I was writing generally as fast as I could while still keeping self-control, which is why I allowed all these part-words to come in. 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, . 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. Early on, I understood that was something you could enjoy doing out of folk music. Its from Homer. 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? 106AN: Thats from In the Pines (2007). Alice Notley continues to live in Paris and makes frequent trips to the U.S. to give readings and lectures. STEIN, Gertrude. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa. 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. 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. BAYM, Nina. The poet reads and discusses her work. Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. Songs for the Unborn Second Baby. 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. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. Nina Baym. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. . was influenced by my autobiographical book that almost won the Pulitzer Prize. A semicolon becomes a semi-precious garnet cluster for the way it telegraphs these audacious leaps. That unusual, horizontal format was probably done to fit the long lines in. I went downstairs. The Goddess who created this passing world. That particular poem is in your selected poems, in, , and it was presented upright on the page, but it was published in a review called. Its not around me much now. Courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. The stream of shattered consciousness is occasionally punctuated by shaped picture-poems, variously representing a ship, a face, a winged coyote. 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. Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama, An introduction to one ofthe most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry. 51My current process is to write in the morning. 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. Cutting as many cords / as you tie to [her], Notley leads us away from rationality to the forgotten and suppressed that makes up another part of now.. 23AN: We were children then, basically. Her mother was Polish and her father Irish. 77For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. 41DR: He has said that he started doing collages in his twenties and continued throughout his life. 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. 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. Ive never thought of her as a poet: sometimes I think she doesnt know anything about poetry at all. 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). 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, 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. KOCH, Kenneth. 96DR: Well I think of Williams as a kind of Calder mobile waiting to enter into movement. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. . Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? New York: Unimproved, 1986. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Robert Haas, Guest Editor. (1986). Her work is various, spontaneous, and increasingly mythological. 24DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. That particular poem is in your selected poems, in Grave of Light (2006), and it was presented upright on the page, but it was published in a review called Chain (2000) and in the Best American Poetry series (2001) where it was horizontal on the page. 121AN: No, never: when I address enemies, I am not carrying them on my shoulder; Im being intensely annoyed by them. It seems nobody has any sense of tone of voice any more. 118AN: It was definitely weird to get food stamps. In fact, the strong memories of starting points, including the vegetation, you just evoked link you to your New York School entourage. 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. 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. 119At that stage, Allen Ginsberg, a really fine person, was extremely supportive. Notleys writing at this time begins to shift away from singular poems and toward book-length projects with overarching styles and themes. 61Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. Notley has stayed very involved in the preservation of both Berrigan and Oliver's works, having edited and written introductions for a number of their books and she continues to be a prolific and powerful force in contemporary poetry, winning the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2007 and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2015. At that point Alice Notley was finding New York less amenable and was keen to go somewhere else. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. I thought that they were voices of dead French people, but they just came from everywhere; the voices came for that poem. Did it influence you? 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,. AN: Well, you learn a lot from teaching, at the beginning. 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