(1954): that book is fantastic; he caught the new line, which he refers to in one of his letters. 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? 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. The Desert Music and Other Poems. AN: Would you like to see the real collage? 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. Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. Get this from a library! 3Alice Notleys poetry has evolved through many phases and experiments, as her output continues to be strong, and is increasingly studied academically. AN: His werent poetry workshops: he taught undergraduate courses at Columbia. Your heart remembers its pumping. The Art of Poetry: John Ashbery. Ed. Need a transcript of this episode? 119At that stage, Allen Ginsberg, a really fine person, was extremely supportive. 73DR: Did you like doing it? Notley. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be "our present-day Homer." I had just been in the States. Since I had all these poems without titles, I just randomly assigned Rons titles to the poems that ended up in. 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. This button displays the currently selected search type. New York: Columbia Records, 1989. DR: There was a pop song in the 1960s by the Three Dog Night. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. BAYM, Nina. 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. There werent a lot of cacti where I lived, but there were a lot of bushes. In Notley's epic poem, The Descent of Alette, form takes many shapes. 4Since then, her poetry has continued to flow and evolve. At a certain point I wrote them down every morning; sometimes I do it more than others. 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. DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. I had just been in the States. She lives in Paris. 32That gives you a sense of the sound. 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. 40AN: Well, I broke it. DR: He has said that he started doing collages in his twenties and continued throughout his life. Its from Homer. 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. Alice Notley has become one of America's greatest living poets. By Alice Notley. 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. Aeneas founded a city, Rome. I like that it's a manuscript and not a book. 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). Alice Notleywas born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California. I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. 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). I dont give a 59DR: With your interpolation of popular culture into epic poetry, I would expect you to be a household name here in France. At Night the States AroarA. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, and Sycamore Review. Notley edited seven of the issues with Berrigan taking over one while Notley was pregnant with their first son. I had it for a long time and it started to break. Cars & the variously shod feet were born. New York: Knopf, 1998. Request a transcript here. 17AN: Yes, they were the two Irish of the set. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Chain 7, Memoir/Antimemoir; Summer 2000, p. 147-151. A semicolon becomes a semi-precious garnet cluster for the way it telegraphs these audacious leaps. His poems are totally him; his voice is unique; his sensibility is unique; and he was always basing it on something else; he wanted to be like Frank [OHara] intensely, but there was no way he could be like Frank. and Laurence B. HOLLAND. The word, the line, and also the stanza. Nick Sturm: It's the point where, when you've made so many books, of course manuscripts are talking to you. New York: Random House, 1954. Automatically inside their apartment, you don't have. She was the only woman in her genre and one of two in the entire graduate writing department. Notley's work stands as a testament to how difficult it is to be truly individual. 41DR: He has said that he started doing collages in his twenties and continued throughout his life. There was pleasure in working with that discovery. My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. New York: Granary Books, 2006. The Indians said: No, we wont do it, but we will send people to teach them to you. The tribes then would send the people to Prescott, and every year they would teach these businessmen dances. Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. The designer of the cover made an extract basically, making it wrap around the book cover, which was an attractive idea. 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. Shehad two sons with him, the poets Edmund and Anselm Berrigan. AN: Well, you learn a lot from teaching, at the beginning. 34AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. There are others over there. The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. Her mother was Polish and her father Irish. NOTLEY, Alice. AN: He has complete syntactical thoughts, then he interrupts things at the conjunction. 112AN: Ah, thats from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (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 Le Monde, lo and behold, 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. New York: American Poets Project Library of America, 2004. Ruth Lilly Prize winner Alice Notley on the voice and spirits of her poetry. Ed. 33DR: I think for the reader those part-words can function to foreground an elsewhere. But he also gave us a new way to think about nature itself. River beneath appearances. New York: Chax Press, 2010. New York: Penguin, 1998. I actually feel bad when I dont write, like yesterday, but I always have something going on. Alma, or The Dead Women. Her mother was Polish and her father Irish. 18DR: The conversation has veered far from Needles, which I hope we will return to, as we evoke various social spaces that seep into the poems. Death, grief, and spirituality were terrain that the fast talk of New York School poetics hadnt fully engaged; so, too, was the political and feminist consciousness growing in Notleys work. 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). 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. , Saint Marks Poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. Its small and a bit fragile. DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. A similar style is found in other poems from that era, including I the People. Theres no garbage. In response, another woman informs: "'he . New York: United Artists, 1979. For the Ride skirts the edge of that story-sense. The magazine ran for eight issues, three of which were published while Notley and Berrigan lived in England. 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. , and she taught me the song later, and my father taught me the chant for the Apache Dog Dance. 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. Better to think of the poem as what Notley calls a bricolage, with hints of medieval allegory, jokey slang, strange jags of French. 37DR: Historically, painting is central to cultural New York and to New York poetry. She has lived most extensively in Needles, in New York, and since 1992 in Paris, France. AN: Well I grew up in the Southwest. That was written in the Food Stamp Office in 1985. AN: I wrote an essay about her work in a book of essays called. Why poetry is necessary and sought after during crises. 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. The words at night the states serve as a refrain that marks the beginning of each stanza. Which is something that John Ashbery would probably have agreed with, in a way. 25AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. [3] AN: Well, I broke it. You have a poem called Cherokee (2006). 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. 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 Notley, Polaroid photo taken in Needles, CA, c.1985, courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. You know Newman makes these large, abstract works. [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. Instagram, And the past & future & I born too. Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. Would you like to come? I didnt go. I knew him in New York, where I saw him from time to time; but after I moved here, he sought me out. One is making them, conscious. 108AN: Yes, towards the end of number fourteen, the last one. During the winter of 197071, Notley and Berrigan lived on Long Island, where Notley wrote her first book, 165 Meeting House Lane (Twenty-Four Sonnets). Oakland: O Books, 1995. After the war, that tradition was exhausted. . That gives you a sense of the sound. 104AN: That was below that bed: the voices were calling to me from below the bed. 50AN: Well possiblyI take in a lot of things that I dont know about, or that I dont remember. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. Its probably Notleys best-known work, perhaps because its one of the easiest to follow. That unusual, horizontal format was probably done to fit the long lines in. DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat.. Alice Notley, Live in Seattle, Portland, WA: Fonograf Editions (Octopus Books), 2019. which is certainly a splendid and beautiful poem, does. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). He was my political education really. 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. Said Let there be lightbulbs & liquefaction. 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. OHaras insouciance has made his work popularan antidote to the high seriousness that poetry sometimes invokes to prove its worth. Whether it's an object or a person, the over-accentuation of gender in relation to form allows for the. There was one called How Green Was My Hair Brush? which was a Ron title. The whole point of the. Was she of an Irish sort? DR: Yes, those are full of imagery: evidently, they have all kinds of signification. 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). She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writers Workshop, University of Iowa. NOTLEY, Alice. . Lipstick, Queens, 1947 these were things he just wrote down on this list of possible titles. 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. 23AN: We were children then, basically. He gave everybody permission to be funny. . New York: Penguin Poets, 2016. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? My mother had broken her hip. Its radio friendly enough for Garrison Keillor to read on The Writers Almanac, but it also includes a sly bit of misdirection: the poems comic duo are easy stand-ins for Notley and her husband, Ted Berrigan, whose 1964 collection The Sonnets made him a star in the New York poetry scene. Syringa. Houseboat Days. NOTLEY, Alice. I could have a conversation about Royal Trux: a very chaotic indie group, sometimes awful, sometimes amazingly brilliant. All the political problems are based in history. 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. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. Alice Notleys influence on a later generation of poets exploring the subject of motherhood is hard to overstate. The poet reads and discusses her work. KOCH, Kenneth. His poems are totally him; his voice is unique; his sensibility is unique; and he was always basing it on something else; he wanted to be like Frank [OHara] intensely, but there was no way he could be like Frank. My parents were from Arizona. 101AN: Well, thats what a lot of us got from her; Im heavily influenced by Gertrude Stein, having had two Stein periods; in the second one in the mid-1980s, I figured out a thing about repetition: that, if you repeated, you could pause long enough inside the repetition to figure out what to say next, which she was probably doing constantly. It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. 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. All these disjunctions allow her work to be so radically personal; for example, this poem is at once a portrait of a mind in motion, a raw depiction of motherhood, a critique of patriarchal sexual politics, and a meditation on the sudden arrival of joy. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Notley began the magazine to connect with preexisting poet friends and meet new writers on both coasts while living in the midwest. Dismiss. But people often say that Marianne Moore writes with the whole sentence. [14] Several poems from her 2007 collection In the Pines were set to music by the Canadian indie pop band AroarA for their 2014 Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2013 EP In the Pines[15] and in Fall 2014, a conference celebrating Notley's work was held at the Bay Area Public School in Oakland, California. 24DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. Like somebody live in some city. . Wholeness is not the same as unity. She is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. 30DR: In your work, theres something in the interstices between thoughts thats both intriguing and active. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). Detroit was burning and poetry was on fire. Essex: Chicago Editions, June 1974. I figured it out afterwards. Miles Davis live at Birdland or something. 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. David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. 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.. Est construido en ambas orillas del ro Nore. 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. Thats what Ive done ever since in different ways. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. I think I know how to do things with my voice that are entirely musical. , c. 1945, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. I never understand what to do or how to do it, I understand that I Batsford Ltd., 1945. That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. I use the collages to go on without thinking with words. The first workshop that I taught was a crucial one for that generation actually. 1967; University of Iowa, Iowa City, M.F.A . As Notley writes in "The Prophet" (1981): "One is you & all this & two & yet." The yet is where poetry begins. Need a transcript of this episode? New York: New Directions, 1962. In that sad, beautiful book, theres so much irony, whereas some literary critics take everything at face value. Ive always had trouble getting materials here. Your brain becomes taffy. Then he writes poetry in the variable foot which is a huge influence on my later work. 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. If this poem demonstrates her abiding interest in metaphysics, it also speaks to the immediate political realities of being a woman writer. 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. 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. 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. I knew him in New York, where I saw him from time to time; but after I moved here, he sought me out. Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. 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). , Wesleyan University Press, 2006 (p.292-293), reproduced with permission of the author. NOTLEY, Alice. 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. Can we talk a little bit about the pop culture that figures in your work? Actually, when I read, , high-school students get similarly entranced. In this midcareer lyric, the poet plays with the idea of citizenship in the everyday, exploring how, as poets and pedestrians, family members and lovers, people always exist somewhere betweenIandwe. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. 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). I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. Notley's work is famously heterogeneous, but it's possible to see a gradual. I mean sometimes theres a lot of garbage but not usable garbage and so it takes me a long time to get anything made. 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. SoundCloud and I knew that I was also doing something like what they used to talk about in college: the taking of two disjunctive things then the jamming of them together: that was part of our critical education at the time; in fact, John Ashbery would have had it too, probably, though he was twenty years older than I was. Notley gave birth to her and Berrigan's second child, Edmund Berrigan, at Colchester Hospital in 1974. 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. She is, to borrow the title from her 2011 collection, a culture of onea singular voice and the medium of many. Are its voices one or many? From this anarchic swirl, brilliant language emerges: Color sizzles my cells, a subversive moon appears, and a moment of playing the dulcimer / in a lemon grove startles. 16DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. 122DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. STEIN, Gertrude. I mean sometimes theres a lot of garbage but not usable garbage and so it takes me a long time to get anything made. Ive noticed it with my granddaughters. She received a B.A. Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including 165 Meeting House Lane (1971), Phoebe Light (1973), Incidentals in the Day World (1973), For Frank OHaras Birthday (1976), Alice Ordered Me to Be Made: Poems 1975 (1976), Dr. Williams Heiresses (1980), How Spring Comes (1981), which received the San Francisco Poetry Award, Waltzing Matilda (1981), Margaret & Dusty (1985), From a Work in Progress (1988), Homers Art (1990), To Say You (1993), Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993), The Descent of Alette (1996), among many others. Their apartment at 101 St. Mark's Place again became a hub for both young writers and Berrigan and Notley's contemporaries. At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. contact email: nicksturm00@gmail.com The range, audacity, and radical commitments of Alice Notley's poetry are unmatched in contemporary literature. . 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. He taught some writing: one writing class, and one civilization and literature class. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1981. 95For me, Williams mostly writes by the word. 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. However, when you dream you get more, particularly images, which I dont have enough of right now. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama, An introduction to one ofthe most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry. What does it mean to be one of millions that comprise a nation? AN: Peggy was great and, yes, Irish. Notley left Needles for New York City to attend Barnard College in 1963, desiring an escape from the isolation of her hometown. Produced by Curtis Fox. They ran away into abstract poetry: that makes a lot of sense to me. I thought that they were voices of dead French people, but they just came from everywhere; the voices came for that poem. AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. Grave of Light. 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? 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. Culture of One sees Notley returning to the desert of her childhood to tell the story of one of its residents. DR: With your interpolation of popular culture into epic poetry, I would expect you to be a household name here in France. 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