But people often say that Marianne Moore writes with the whole sentence. New York: Knopf, 1998. 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. Among the most powerful moments in her work are the ones marked by her teaching poetry workshops in New York and her self-publishing the book. Then I figured out how to write them, so they enter the text. Early on, I understood that was something you could enjoy doing out of folk music. 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. That was one of the first things Ted [Berrigan] told me about John: he kept a list of titles, like Civilization and Its Discontents, then he would decide, Ah, that would be a great title for a poem, and then later he would check his list and pull that title out. 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). 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. which went: If I was the King of the World, Id throw away all the cars, thus broadcasting the idea. I also have a vinyl record, its like one of those jazz albums. He taught some writing: one writing class, and one civilization and literature class. In fact, the strong memories of starting points, including the vegetation, you just evoked link you to your New York School entourage. NOTLEY, Alice. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The Man in the Long Black Coat, (1989) by Bob Dylan influenced the sound of the first two parts, which I wrote last. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. 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 first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. [8] While in England, Notley would write her second sonnet cycle Great Interiors, Wines and Spirits of the World, which was originally published in a Notley-themed issue of the Chicago magazine Out There.[9]. 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. 56AN: When its around me, I take it in. New York: Chax Press, 2010. 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. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. The Art of Poetry No. 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. 59DR: With your interpolation of popular culture into epic poetry, I would expect you to be a household name here in France. 86AN: The whole book is about her, actually: she and Medea keep coming back. Or, as Notley puts it, the trick is to Try to get new language // closer to that of thought. 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, . AN: The whole book is about her, actually: she and Medea keep coming back. There are others over there. Or both but instantly. They would go out in the Hopi pueblo and get whatever snakes there were around, and a quarter would be rattlers, but in Prescott, they only used bull snakes. AN: To quote Jack Kerouac, avoid the authorities. If you have the talent you have to avoid them. 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. For the Ride skirts the edge of that story-sense. It emasculates her. Indeed, French poetry has had some weird times, where it got so abstract. 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. 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. Notley remained fairly prolific during this era, writing and publishing several full-length collections. 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. 214, fall 2015, p.34-121. Watch Video Here. 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. You know Frank was this little gay guy and Ted was this big, butch, working-class guy from Rhode Island; they were both from New England so there may have been something that he caught off of Franks voice as a vibration, or of Franks way of behaving in the world (I never met him; Ted once gave me permission to call him Frank). 22DR: Like Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman reading at Saint Marks church their collaborative poem, Memorial Day (May 6, 1971), that episode of Public Access Television, June 16, 1977, where you and Eileen Myles read together must count among the great New York School moments still on record. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. 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. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. AN: Virgil was just this poet and he had to contend with Augustus Caesar. 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. Descent would grow to be Notley's most widely read and taught collection after its reprinting by Penguin in 1996. Culture of One sees Notley returning to the desert of her childhood to tell the story of one of its residents. DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. New York: TPR. Table of Contents Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in. I assume I've learned a little more since the last time I taught, and that I've a little more to learn in the teaching. Then he writes poetry in the variable foot which is a huge influence on my later work. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. Too many 11It was a collaboration of sorts, though I generally do not collaborate; I really hate it. STEIN, Gertrude. Songs for the Unborn Second Baby. Alice. 4Since then, her poetry has continued to flow and evolve. Whys not valid here. 61Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. From February through June 1974 in Wivenhoe, Essex, Notley wrote her book Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (United Artists, 1979). The Crying Book Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Cant. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. DR: Yes, the 1971 poem about writing an earlier poem of the same title, a characteristically clever poetic ploy. 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. I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. Grave of light : new and selected poems, 1970-2005. 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. Jobs People Learning Dismiss Dismiss. One is making them, conscious. Nadja who sees things before they happen next and is just carted off: the status of mediums becomes a metaphor for the status of poetry in society. . [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. deserve to be there, having their names engraved in that particular way. 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. In these poems, as in much of Notleys work, details from daily life enter in fragments that can be both entertaining and jarringly serious. Actually, when I read, , high-school students get similarly entranced. 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. 120DR: He was deeply inspired by the Hindu tradition, which was brave and opens the culture up. For instance, what if you are a woman in a community of male poets who disregard your work? Its possible Im living in the apartment of someone who was taken away to the camps. Better to think of the poem as what Notley calls a bricolage, with hints of medieval allegory, jokey slang, strange jags of French. Mystery of Small Houses. 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). 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. 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. 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 I always liked his paintings. Over the course of her career, Alice Notley has achieved something astounding: each of her nearly 30 books is different from the last one yet unmistakably hers. I would write during that high, meanwhile I would listen to Bob Dylan tapes. Then I figured out how to write them, so they enter the text. American Literature between the Wars, 1914-1945. Gen. Ed. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. 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. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? 74AN: Well, you learn a lot from teaching, at the beginning. 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). [citation needed]. 33DR: I think for the reader those part-words can function to foreground an elsewhere. Do you remember when he wrote the second The Circus? He could write any time he wanted to; Im like that too. NOTLEY, Alice and Ted BERRIGAN, editors. My collages actually reflect the situation of overabundance. damn whether they eat or not. NOTLEY, Alice. Revue dtudes amricaines. NOTLEY, Alice. We know how inane the decision was that everybody would have a car, completely destroying the planet. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? 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. Need a transcript of this episode? 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. Instead, she gravitated increasingly toward archetype and mytha search for primordial language bubbling under the surface. DR: 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. In his humorous anti-manifesto, Personism, the poet Frank OHara discloses one of arts great truths: you just go on your nerve. Considering this truth, he wonders, But how can you really care if anybody gets it, or gets what it means, or if it improves them. In the search for immediacy, he writes, questions of accessibility can come to seem pointless: Improves them for what? The book took its title from the address of their home on Long Island and was published by Berrigan's C Press. For the Ride is a difficult book, constructed largely of long, discursive lines reminiscent of a Beckett monologue, testing the selfs capacity to hold together: one is not, ones are not, separated. Ive written so much in my life that Ive become able to control it all; and when it feels like Im letting go, Im not. I wrote a poem about it in. Photographer unknown, Alice Notley teaching a workshop, Saint Marks Poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. Need a transcript of this episode? DR: You quote the powerful, assertive voice of Marianne Moore in a poem. In Heavens Breath, Lyall Watson created a wildly entertaining history of the wind. They measure out a skittering meter, question languages capacities in the face of violence, and remind us of its primal connection to bodies living and dead, speaking and silent. For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. 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. My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. From her early days in the male-dominated New York School, Notleys work has been persistently, fiercely feminist, and this poems matter-of-fact mythmakingthe world it describes is ourspresages her later efforts to write women into the Homeric tradition. Ive never thought of her as a poet: sometimes I think she doesnt know anything about poetry at all. My current process is to write in the morning. I have some Cherokee Blood, perhaps one-sixteenth Cherokee. 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? In 2015, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. ASHBERY, John. Alice 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. Dismiss. Why poetry is necessary and sought after during crises. The Man in the Long Black Coat, (1989) by Bob Dylan influenced the sound of the first two parts, which I wrote last. The indeterminacy, one suspects, is the point. To come back to this one, I read it as a kind of. Her children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmond Berrigan are both New York Poets of a younger generation. Raw language is the final material we have; it is only by shaping and reshaping it that we can hope to rebuild our world. [4] Notley's second book, Phoebe Light, was published in 1973 by Bill Berkson's Bolinas-based press Big Sky.[5]. Courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. NOTLEY, Alice. ALICE NOTLEY has been hailed as one of the United States's greatest living poets.She is the author of more than 25 books of poetry and the recipient of numerous awards, including, most recently . 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. I was one of his friends in Paris. Its filthy; I dont remember how I got that torn princess; but that bird was in a book; you see that phrase there marks what I was barred from: so the thing to see is that Im in jail and they wont let me into the Htel des Grands Hommes. Which is the Panthon. Are its voices one or many? I made this in about 2005. 73DR: Did you like doing it? In fact, the strong memories of starting points, including the vegetation, you just evoked link you to your New York School entourage. Instead of second-guessing their style, we could talk about the way they handled the tasks. I dreamed about the children afterwards, you know, there were children being chased in this building. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). I the People Dismiss. The Art of Poetry No. The late Gracie Allen was a very lucid comedienne. Life spilled out onto the street, colors whirled. Left-wing Radicalism in the United States: A Foreign Creed? AN: That photo in the middle is me at age ten, I think. That gives you a sense of the sound. As Notley writes in "The Prophet" (1981): "One is you & all this & two & yet." The yet is where poetry begins. It always felt to me like I was enacting ideas that visual artists had normally, that I was figuring it out. 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). AroarA. Her last collection, Mysteries of Small Houses, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The word, the line, and also the stanza. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Chain 7, Memoir/Antimemoir; Summer 2000, p. 147-151. But although it feels dashed-off, OHaras essay is more than fashionable flash. Like somebody live in some city. There was one called How Green Was My Hair Brush? which was a Ron title. In this interview, she mentions other New York Poets (John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Frank OHara, Kenneth Koch, Ron Padgett, Eileen Myles, Anne Waldman, Joe Brainard, Allan Ginsberg, and Bernadette Mayer). Batsford Ltd., 1945. NOTLEY, Alice. 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. The books were published under the imprint Unimproved Editions and Notley made cover art for the majority of the titles. The former Presidents political and legal challenges are mounting, even as some polls indicate that he still has a lot of support among Republicans. Instead of ushering us toward received truth or false comfort, her work searches and invites us to look for ourselves. 77For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. 53DR: The disturbing political and historical moment we are experiencing could disrupt many collective dreams. . She lives and works in Paris. 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. 122DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. Notleys next book, Mysteries of Small House (1998), is an experiment with the autobiographical mode, in which Notley was firstly trying to realize the first person singular as fully and nakedly as possible. Her subsequent book, Disobedience (2001), heads in the opposite direction, showing disobedience to the notions of truth and reality, featuring comic confrontations with reoccurring characters like Robert Mitch-ham, a man that closely resembles the actor Robert Mitchum. Sonnet 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. DR: In your work, theres something in the interstices between thoughts thats both intriguing and active. [1] [2] The poem is notable for Notley's extensive use of quotation marks throughout, which she has described as part of her attempt to reclaim the narrative function. I didnt know any French; I had no French when I came here, basically, in my late forties. interview (2015) she says that she learned from John Ashbery never to complete a thought, which is a rich idea. But he also gave us a new way to think about nature itself. Was she of an Irish sort? They bring to mind the French tradition of Guillaume Apollinaires Calligrams (Notley has lived in Paris since the nineties), and their playfulness brings some relief to the poems voyaging. Her mother was Polish and her father Irish. 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. AN: We were all doing them. 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). 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. With Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Notley once again takes on the challenge of creating a feminist epic. Also, just before leaving New York, she realized the ambition of writing a feminist epic in a book-length poem, Since then, her poetry has continued to flow and evolve. DR: Where leftover misery goes Can a poem be like a dance? The Desert Music and Other Poems. DR: Did you like doing it? Alice Notley, Passeurs de la littrature des tats-Unis en France(1)/ Lhritage de Michel Foucault aux tats-Unis, City Ruins in American War Narratives/ Womens Sites of Struggles for Self-Determination. 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. Notley has remained in Paris but makes several trips to the United States each year to give readings and teach small workshops. dreams. 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. I mean sometimes theres a lot of garbage but not usable garbage and so it takes me a long time to get anything made. Alice Notleys poetry has evolved through many phases and experiments, as her output continues to be strong, and is increasingly studied academically. Request a transcript here. Kilkenny (irlands: Cill Chainnigh [cil xani], que significa 'iglesia de Cainnech') es una ciudad en el condado de Kilkenny, Irlanda. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Robert Haas, Guest Editor, The Best American Poetry of 2001. My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). contact email: nicksturm00@gmail.com The range, audacity, and radical commitments of Alice Notley's poetry are unmatched in contemporary literature. Especially in the way that lucid means shining and bright. 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. There were various famous people now that were in it like Susie Timmons. You have a poem called Cherokee (2006). DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat.. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979, p. 911-1772. Notley gave birth to their first son, Anselm Berrigan, named after Anselm Hollo, in 1972, as well. 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. In this short poem from her 1980 book When I Was Alive, Notley describes a female god who creates, instead of light, lightbulbs & liquefaction, who teaches us affection for paintings and films and the limitations of words. AN: Well possiblyI take in a lot of things that I dont know about, or that I dont remember. 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. All the political problems are based in history. 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. 99AN: Frank caught how great Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems (1962) was. MYLES, Eileen. DR: Historically, painting is central to cultural New York and to New York poetry. 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". New York: Granary Books, 2006. As in her feminist epic The Descent of Alette, the quotation marks here both interrupt and sustain. Ive noticed it with my granddaughters. AN: He has complete syntactical thoughts, then he interrupts things at the conjunction. AN: I dont remember that poem, Syringa, but John tends to pick things out: he used to keep lists of his titles and then he would decide to write the poem of that title. Street, colors whirled 2011 ), Notley once again takes on challenge. 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