Alice Notley

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Jim Carroll’s Ass

Jun 3, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Alice Notley |Shilpa Jindia

Nothing seems real yet I’m willing to play ‘the real’ game for ones I love and when I’m sick I go get pills but more and more hovering above it I’m and then is it a question of for who that’s why I no longer have memories I don’t care about them though I can contrive more but I don’t belong in them anymore ‘Do you really think everyone is benighted?’ someone in effect asked I guess I said yes what emanates from me is crackling love electrical currents an aliveness everything else I do...
“Gravel Ghost or Gravel Gertie,” a Poem by Alice Notley

Apr 22, 2024 | lithub.com | Alice Notley

Gravel Ghost or Gravel GertieI got the shuttle in DallasThe man sitting beside me window seatSlept. He was wearing new spiffy bootsand a sort of combat outfit. Then he woke upAsked to get out and came back from the restroomwide awake and talkative—drugs? I remember hetold me he’d been in, no still did work for, theSpecial Forces. Had been in Europe just now soI told him I lived in France and we discussed howthe euro was doing.
BEING REFLECTED UPON

Apr 18, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Alice Notley

Listening to Alice Notley read her own poetry is rather like visiting her mind. It may take a while to get used to the strange environment, but eventually one adapts and starts to feel comfortable. The poetry still requires attention and investigation, but it is rewarding. Notley's voice is intense and immediate, almost as though she is not reading the poems but improvising them in front of the microphone.
Are Loyal by Alice Notley

Apr 12, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Alice Notley

Okay part of it’shere. See it,I want you to see my brother, dead smilingYou look so much better in a red short-sleeved shirt, How does time work for you? I got through. I can see where — when — I felt bad. Goes past. I’m not in it any moreBut this change hasn’t happened in time — a kind ofbefore and after but no ... continuum. You look brilliant! Inever let you down — he says — did I? It wasn’t possible, Why not? Sisters and brothers are loyal,we are the primal particles.
Critics Page - APRIL 2024

Apr 10, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Alice Notley

By Martin Corless-Smith Near the beginning of his defense of Poetry, Shelley defines the poem as an exemplary social site, which should constitute pleasure in sensation, virtue in sentiment, beauty in art, truth in reasoning, and love in the intercourse of kind. A successful poem should establish a necessary balance of Truth, Virtue, Beauty, Love, and Pleasure.
What Does It Feel Like To Write A Poem?

Apr 1, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Alice Notley

This is what I think: that one feels nothing while writing a poem and only sort of thinks. It’s a high-wire act. Maybe. And the feelings associated with a poem, long or short, are entities from before and after the writing of the poem—which may well contain them—but one doesn’t, even cannot, experience them while writing. Writing a poem, or lines of a poem, is a pure and rather rapid experience.
White Phosphorus

Dec 14, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Alice Notley |Benjamin Voigt

“Flowery mantle.” “Homeric sacrifice?” “noise of darkness” “fear of darkness” “now mantle of innocence” “King of his death now” “Home” “I’ve come home” “He said, ‘I’ve come home’” “They were sacrificed for nothing, for distant” “instants of thought” “All for your thinking” “He said, ‘I’ve come home; I've finally come home’ then he died” “flowers” “Magnolias & lilies” “innocent now” “I’ve come home. Who’s there? at home?
The Answer Is Awe

Dec 6, 2023 | theparisreview.org | Alice Notley

Beijing Normal University, 2021. All photographs courtesy of Yu Hua. Yu Hua was born in 1960. He grew up in Haiyan County in the Zhejiang province of eastern China, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. His parents were both in the medical profession—his father a surgeon, his mother a nurse—and Yu would often sneak into the hospital where they worked, sometimes napping on the nearby morgue’s cool concrete slabs on hot summer days.
Alice Notley | Poetry Foundation

Sep 8, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Benjamin Voigt |Alice Notley |Nick Sturm |Claire Luchette

Alice Notley has become one of America’s greatest living poets. She has long written in narrative and epic and genre-bending modes to discover new ways to explore the nature of the self and the social and cultural importance of disobedience. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be “our present-day Homer.” Notley was born in Arizona and grew up in Needles, California.
What’s this fork doing?

Aug 31, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Alice Notley |Andrea Brady

Alice Notley was born in Arizona in 1945, and grew up in Needles, California. One of her first jobs was transcribing broadcasts for Radio Free Europe: the work influenced her early poems, which incorporate verbatim phrases from the street and the news – a literalisation of John Stuart Mill’s claim that poetry is eloquence overheard. Transcription was a pragmatic technique, and a modest one. ‘I was in a state of fascination with the voices of others,’ Notley recalls.