In reframing and re-empowing Dido and Medea, she is writing a meditation on destruction. The late Gracie Allen was a very lucid comedienne. In New York, the poets you met were mostly all from somewhere else (except for a few of them like Bill Berkson and Kenward Elmslie). Light as airmail paper away she flew. 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. In 1986, Notley led a workshop where participants were required to write an entire book during the course of their meetings. 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. 98DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. There are different paces and reading styles possible; the performance can be different each time. I mean sometimes theres a lot of garbage but not usable garbage and so it takes me a long time to get anything made. For me, Williams mostly writes by the word. 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. She lives and works in Paris. , Montreal: Club Roll, 2012. [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. But only One is here.One is composed of words like one makes in beginning, chaotically.One makes them? NOTLEY, Alice. The Goddess who created this passing world, Said Let there be lightbulbs & liquefaction, Life spilled out onto the street, colors whirled, Toys and rose The zoo body zigzags. Alice Notley and Douglas Oliver Editors, The Scarlet Cabinet. Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice is an imagined rebuke by Beat writer Jack Kerouac of his biographers, many of whom focused on the lurid and sensational details of his personal life rather than the importance and impact of his writing. The whole point of the. Poetry itself can be thought of as that which comes from afar. My mother had broken her hip. They really like, DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? As Notley writes in The Prophet (1981): One is you & all this & two & yet. The yet is where poetry begins. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. NOTLEY, Alice. 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). If we compare them with painting, they work like the zips in Newmans painting. Then I figured out how to write them, so they enter the text. The indeterminacy, one suspects, is the point. 24DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. NOTLEY, Alice. My collages actually reflect the situation of overabundance. I was her teacher, though Im not much older than she is, about four years older. Just like I did. The jacket copy attempts to sketch the books plot: the protagonist, named One, is suddenly within the Glyph. He taught some writing: one writing class, and one civilization and literature class. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. 32That gives you a sense of the sound. This guy is doing vinyl records of poets and hes done a series including one of me and one of Eileen [Myles]. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. 43DR: Yes, those are full of imagery: evidently, they have all kinds of signification. Ad Choices. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. Thats why my poetry works so well. Theres no garbage. My mother was always curious and interested. Actually, when I read The Descent of Alette, high-school students get similarly entranced. I figured it out afterwards. 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. I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). 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. . because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. In The Pines. David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. His zips are like obelisks; theyre like sculptures inside the paintings. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. 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 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). 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. Where Leftover Misery Goes.. (2006). Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. 77For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. There were various famous people now that were in it like Susie Timmons. Now there are all these plaques in my neighborhood saying: Here 300 French school children were sent to the camps. I woke up one day. Ill read a part of it: Alice Notley, Where Leftover Misery Goes in. NOTLEY, Alice. 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. 91DR: You quote the powerful, assertive voice of Marianne Moore in a poem. But Notley, never one to be pinned down, has continued to push poetrys formal constraints, and this pursuit has led her far away from portraits of domestic life. 34AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. In that sad, beautiful book, theres so much irony, whereas some literary critics take everything at face value. Batsford Ltd., 1945. Also in my poem Disobedience (2001), I got the title in a dream about him. I the People DR: The disturbing political and historical moment we are experiencing could disrupt many. 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. Notleys writing at this time begins to shift away from singular poems and toward book-length projects with overarching styles and themes. 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). Instead of second-guessing their style, we could talk about the way they handled the tasks. New York: TPR. An introduction to one ofthe most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry. 12DR: Thats what Ted Berrigan was about: taking things from here and there, picking them up, and making them his own. Flowery mantle. Homeric sacrifice? noise of darkness fear of, darkness now mantle of innocence King of his death now Home, Ive come home He said, Ive come home They were sacrificed for, nothing, for distant instants of thought All for your thinking, Illustration courtesy of Sophie Herxheimer, The Goddess Who Created This Passing World. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Teds father worked for the Tip-Top Bread factory and died when he was fifty of a heart attack, after being laid off due to mechanization. The sense of something escaping is well illustrated by your poem, Where Leftover Misery Goes, among others. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Robert Haas, Guest Editor, The Best American Poetry of 2001. The book took its title from the address of their home on Long Island and was published by Berrigan's C Press. In 1972, Berrigan and Notley married and moved to Chicago, where they lived until 1976. They ran away into abstract poetry: that makes a lot of sense to me. Kilkenny. El jugador controla a Alice durante todo el juego corriendo, saltando, esquivando y atacando. New York: TPR, 2009, p.174-202. [17], Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. Alice Eliza Harvey Expand search. AN: It was definitely weird to get food stamps. There is, however, some hope to be found in Millions of Us, which ends We have this project to / change our silence into the beautiful city of a voice. 11It was a collaboration of sorts, though I generally do not collaborate; I really hate it. Notley also thanks Tom Clark who would go on to re-publish the sonnet cycle in his anthology All Stars. 85DR: Also referring to the Aeneid, you speak about Dido in Songs And Stories Of The Ghouls (2011): she is a female character who suffers a kind of erasure, despite being the great queen of Carthage. Its filthy; I dont remember how I got. , Portland, WA: Fonograf Editions (Octopus Books), 2019. DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. Or both but instantly. 20DR: Eileen Myles is another poet who comes from an Irish, working-class, New England background and lost her father. I use the collages to go on without thinking with words. New York: Random House, 1954. The whole point of the Aeneid is to take away from her the founding of a city, and transform her into this love suicide, and to rob her of her power. Her work warns of the ways in which our civilization and its conventional stories have failed us, but its also a reminder that the endless resources of language remain for those who have a little nerve. Its a reasonable question to ask about For the Ride, which begins with a challenge to the reader: Youll have to decipher whats going on, as it happens. I was wondering if your poems that address completely despicable people might be a case of carrying the enemy on the shoulder. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 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.. Logic sees cities destroyed as poems are stolen; a bloodied performer attempts to win over a non-existent audience in Perhaps Not for You. Which is something that John Ashbery would probably have agreed with, in a way. Its more like a pause between metrical feet. 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. I wonder about it later, but actually it always seems like it is justified: I think the people that I mentioned in. Maggie Nelson, in her excellent book about the women of the New York School, describes Notleys later aesthetic as Fuck You the reader, fuck mainstream poetry, fuck avant-garde poetry, fuck France, fuck America, fuck daily life, fuck death, and so on.. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. 52I do write down my dreams, though I havent been dreaming much lately; but Ive been doing that for years. She met the poetTed Berrigan, and the couple lived in Southampton, New York (in the garage of painter Larry Rivers); Manhattan; Providence, Rhode Island; and Bolinas, California. I learned everything from the variable foot from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.. And that other one was something I just picked up from the sidewalk. This period also marked an increase in scholarly interest in Notley's work. Instead, she gravitated increasingly toward archetype and mytha search for primordial language bubbling under the surface. Culture of One sees Notley returning to the desert of her childhood to tell the story of one of its residents. In Notleys hands, the free-roving speech of poets like OHara became a new way of exploring the permeability of identity on the page. Logic These poems are included in Notley's collection Early Works, edited by Nick Sturm and forthcoming from Fonograf Editions in March 2023.. Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including, most recently, Certain Magical Acts (2016), Eurynome's Sandals (2019), and For the Ride (2020). I made this in about 2005. He could write any time he wanted to; Im like that too. 90AN: Virgil was just this poet and he had to contend with Augustus Caesar. 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. and Laurence B. HOLLAND. The Paris Review Interviews vol. 115DR: Also Im coming back often to that poem, In this Paradise, about the food-stamp office. Its also a passionate entreaty to writers to make work thats completely their own. 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.. Then I found all the spots around the world in them and talked about them as being set in the world as a whole, saying that was a fitting poetry for now, when were all crossing borders all the time: spanning geography is the main event today, because there are so many people. I gave a talk on his poetry last month, in New York, which I wrote during the cold snap, when it was too cold to go out for three days. AN: She lost her father younger than Ted lost his. 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: Scribner Poetry, 2001, p.120-124. In 2015, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Alls well.. It was reissued in 2021 by the London-based small press Distance No Object. 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. There are others over there. 99: Eileen Myles.. I have some Cherokee Blood, perhaps one-sixteenth Cherokee. AN: He was a good friend. My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. 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. AN: He has complete syntactical thoughts, then he interrupts things at the conjunction. [citation needed]. Join now Sign in . These ideas are all very tangible, yet somewhat unconnected when conversed about and referred to. 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. New York: Penguin, 1998. Ruth Lilly Prize winner Alice Notley on the voice and spirits of her poetry. My name is ending refused Notleys persistent nonconformismone of her most difficult works is called Disobedienceinsists that further possibilities exist. 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. I wrote a poem about it in. 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. 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. NOTLEY, Alice. I'm calling out from pictures to your vision creating it. Need a transcript of this episode? Of her 1983 workshop, Notley wrote: I expect my workshop will be similar to past Alice Notley workshops: same old format, assignments, xeroxes, forms, occasions, geometries, kinds of poems, speculations on and practice of the lofty and the silly. Humbleflannel skeleton. The Circus (1971). Mixed media collage, 8.5 x 9.75 in. At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. . 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. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. 39DR: It seems to be an inspired collage. DR: Lets see, arrive the exactitude of pitch the tune in words alone; thats In the Pines too. If this poem demonstrates her abiding interest in metaphysics, it also speaks to the immediate political realities of being a woman writer. This Kind of Paradise. Parts of a Wedding. Miles Davis live at Birdland or something. Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in Certain Magical Acts. Alice scared me. I wrote a poem about it in Alma, or The Dead Women (2006). DR: Thats what Ted Berrigan was about: taking things from here and there, picking them up, and making them his own. Then I found all the spots around the world in them and talked about them as being set in the world as a whole, saying that was a fitting poetry for now, when were all crossing borders all the time: spanning geography is the main event today, because there are so many people. To Annapurna or Mt. I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). WILLIAMS, William Carlos. 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 DR: It seems to be an inspired collage. Photographer unknown, Alice Notleys father doing the Hopi snake dance, c. 1945, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. With long and limber lines, a clear narrative, and recognizable characters, this sad and sweet poem about Gracie Allen and George Burns demonstrates Notleys wide range. [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. The Descent of Alette. In these poems, as in much of Notleys work, details from daily life enter in fragments that can be both entertaining and jarringly serious. AN: His werent poetry workshops: he taught undergraduate courses at Columbia. turn right, that dream building cutglass window in door. Sonnet 69AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. AN: Virgil was just this poet and he had to contend with Augustus Caesar. 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. Essex: Chicago Editions, June 1974. There were four kids, including a couple still at home. 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. My parents were from Arizona. I never understand what to do or how to do it, I understand that I Particularly the middle one. Is that right? The Man in the Long Black Coat, (1989) by Bob Dylan influenced the sound of the first two parts, which I wrote last. She was 88had just got back upand I was so inspired by how she got back up that I wrote that poem; I also wrote Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me (2016) basically in the same spurt of energy. She received a B.A. As in I the People, the speaker in this masterpiece questions the relationship between person and nation and between private and publicbut this time in the face of great personal loss. As is often written in her biographical notes, "she has never tried to be anything other than a poet," and with over forty books and chapbooks and several major awards, she is one of the most prolific and lauded American poets today. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. You know that quotation from a Paris Review interview (1983) that everything is this underground river and you can just draw from it any time you want to. AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. The Crying Book Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Cant. Dismiss. I think I know how to do things with my voice that are entirely musical. For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. In fact, the strong memories of starting points, including the vegetation, you just evoked link you to your New York School entourage. 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. Est construido en ambas orillas del ro Nore. That was written in the Food Stamp Office in 1985. She edited and wrote the introduction for the reissue of Ted Berrigans The Sonnets (2000), as well as editing, with her sons, The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (2005). Notley has remained in Paris but makes several trips to the United States each year to give readings and teach small workshops. And that other one was something I just picked up from the sidewalk. 8DR: Such natural presences are important. NOTLEY, Alice. Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. 102I re-read Wars I have Seen (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. 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. In the serious, reflective poem, Your Dailiness (1971), you mention finally understanding Willem de Koonings painting, Excavation, in a Chicago museum. She has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. KOCH, Kenneth. The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. He came around when something bad happened to us. Request a transcript here. Among her two newest volumes are Eurynomes Sandals (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2019) and For the Ride (Penguin Books, 2020). 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. always reinventing my practice, discovering what I believe is true and But I met himI met everybodyaround 1968. AN: We were children then, basically. 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. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? Its possible Im living in the apartment of someone who was taken away to the camps. Ive noticed it with my granddaughters. DR: Did you like doing it? First, the way the fan that tapers at the top disorients the view, because the fan is supposed to open up, not reduce. Instead of second-guessing their style, we could talk about the way they handled the tasks. When he died in 2000, Alice Notley was sufficiently settled into Paris to remain there. 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. Alice Notleys father doing the Hopi snake dance. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). This is typical of what happens when I make a collage. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? Those are the ones Im working on right now, which have to do with my poetry of the moment. 50AN: Well possiblyI take in a lot of things that I dont know about, or that I dont remember. 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. My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). 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). She is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry, includingMysteries 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); andGrave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. staying at the Htel des Grands Hommes with his surrealist friends, who wont get into the Panthon either. It seems nobody has any sense of tone of voice any more. New York: Penguin, 2001. 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. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing Alette. AN: 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. Among Notleys most famous works is At Night the States, an elegy for Berrigan written two years after his death. 116AN: I was there. ASHBERY, John. The Descent of Alette is a 1992 book length poem by the American poet Alice Notley. DR: Yes, the 1971 poem about writing an earlier poem of the same title, a characteristically clever poetic ploy. At that point Alice Notley was finding New York less amenable and was keen to go somewhere else. Benjamin Voigt grew up on a small farm in upstate New York. [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. I quoted from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (1979). That gives you a sense of the sound. When he died in 2000, Alice Notley was sufficiently settled into Paris to remain there. 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. New York: Unimproved, 1986. Ive always had trouble getting materials here. Its small and a bit fragile. Syringa. Houseboat Days. From February through June 1974 in Wivenhoe, Essex, Notley wrote her book Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (United Artists, 1979). I was one of his friends in Paris. Need a transcript Alice Notley has become one of Americas greatest living poets. 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. Disobedience. Disobedience. Notley and Berrigan were frequent instructors at Naropa University's summer writing program. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. 10When 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. 118AN: It was definitely weird to get food stamps. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. 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. Dismiss. Did it influence you? 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