They ran away into abstract poetry: that makes a lot of sense to me. 48AN: I read it when I was about twenty-three, in English. There's an unfinishedness. 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. 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. 98DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. DR: There was a pop song in the 1960s by the Three Dog Night. NOTLEY, Alice. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. I was her teacher, though Im not much older than she is, about four years older. 26DR: In her Paris Review interview (2015) she says that she learned from John Ashbery never to complete a thought, which is a rich idea. By Alice Notley. 16DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. Your brain becomes taffy. 67My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). vol. Instead, she gravitated increasingly toward archetype and mytha search for primordial language bubbling under the surface. 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). Parts of a Wedding. In Notley's epic poem, The Descent of Alette, form takes many shapes. Notley. Poems.. Notley and Berrigan joined an already active community of Chicago poets, including Paul Carroll, Paul Hoover, and Maxine Chernoff. I had just been in the States. 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. 214, fall 2015, p.34-121. To come back to this one, I read it as a kind of. 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. , Wesleyan University Press, 2006 (p.292-293), reproduced with permission of the author. 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. We were all born in 1945, and despite a certain competitiveness at first, became good friends. Notley remained fairly prolific during this era, writing and publishing several full-length collections. Since I had all these poems without titles, I just randomly assigned Rons titles to the poems that ended up in For Frank OHaras Birthday (1976). I actually feel bad when I dont write, like yesterday, but I always have something going on. 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. It also marks a shift in Notleys poetics away from the freewheeling chattiness of the New York School and toward something more visionary, historical, and grandly narrative. . In this emblematic early piece, the text spills across the page. , and she taught me the song later, and my father taught me the chant for the Apache Dog Dance. 71AN: His werent poetry workshops: he taught undergraduate courses at Columbia. And the past & future & I born too. American Studies Journal, AccueilNumros1ReconnaissancesInterview of Alice Notley. [7], In 1974, Berrigan got a job as a visiting poet at University of Essex, so Notley and Berrigan, with their son Anselm, relocated first to London, then to Brightlingsea in Essex. It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. Cathy Park Hong has some thoughts for you, and some thoughts on how best to share them. The Indie rock group, (2005), collects a series of sensitive essays she wrote about her own poetry and that of others from her poetic. Was she of an Irish sort? They really like, DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? And Virgil: (2011): she is a female character who suffers a kind of erasure, despite being the great queen of Carthage. She has lived most extensively in Needles, in New York, and since 1992 in Paris, France. Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in Certain Magical Acts. His zips are like obelisks; theyre like sculptures inside the paintings. Notley wrote extensively of her childhood and early life in her book Tell Me Again (Am here, 1982). Poems and prose about conflict, armed conflict, and poetry's role in shaping perceptions and outcomes of war. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/13862; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.13862, Universit Paris Nanterre and cole nationale suprieure des beaux-arts de Paris, Creative Commons - Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/, Voir la notice dans le catalogue OpenEdition, Plan du site Mentions lgales et Crdits Liens Flux de syndication, Politique de confidentialit Gestion des cookies, Nous adhrons OpenEdition Journals dit avec Lodel Accs rserv, You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search. 56AN: When its around me, I take it in. Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. New York: Unimproved, 1986. For me, Williams mostly writes by the word. which went: If I was the King of the World, Id throw away all the cars, thus broadcasting the idea. 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. The former Presidents political and legal challenges are mounting, even as some polls indicate that he still has a lot of support among Republicans. Grave of light : new and selected poems, 1970-2005. Within the text, a woman is desperate to take her daughter above ground, therefore she offers to pay the tyrant money. DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. In The Pines. There were various famous people now that were in it like Susie Timmons. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. [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 . AN: Well, you learn a lot from teaching, at the beginning. I just sat in here and wrote about Allen and the international aspect of his work. The sense of something escaping is well illustrated by your poem, Where Leftover Misery Goes, among others. Logic sees cities destroyed as poems are stolen; a bloodied performer attempts to win over a non-existent audience in Perhaps Not for You. When 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. 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. The two worked on two magazines together, Gare du Nord and Scarlet, and self-published a compendium of their own books, The Scarlet Cabinet, which contained Notley's Descent of Alette. 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. I use the collages to go on without thinking with words. Her poems have also been compared to Gertrude Stein, as well as her contemporary Bernadette Mayer. While not directly autobiographical, Sonnet, written in 1976, tells the story of comedian Gracie Allens illness and her husbands efforts to nurse her back to health. Edwin Denby made his name as a dance critic, but his poetry was a pivotal influence on the writers and artists of the New York School. Individual Time. 119At that stage, Allen Ginsberg, a really fine person, was extremely supportive. 8DR: Such natural presences are important. to get there. Miles Davis live at Birdland or something. 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. At a certain point I wrote them down every morning; sometimes I do it more than others. She made one change when she worked for James Schuyler, and she adopted a version of his short line, though after that theres little change, except a few years ago, when she started putting in spaces between thoughts: in a new way she created some disjunction she had never had before. November 2014. Aeneas founded a city, Rome. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. You know Newman makes these large, abstract works. There was pleasure in working with that discovery. At a certain point I wrote them down every morning; sometimes I do it more than others. The Desert Music and Other 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. The Art of Poetry No. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. Baby (1979). Then I figured out how to write them, so they enter the text. I went downstairs. 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? ALICE NOTLEY has published more than twenty collections of poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. 39DR: It seems to be an inspired collage. Would you like to come? I didnt go. One group of studentsDarlene Pearlstein, Peter Kostakis, and Richard Friedmanstarted a small poetry press, The Yellow Press, which would go on to publish two books by Notley, one book by Berrigan, and give out a yearly Ted Berrigan Prizeoverseen in part by Notleyfor a first book (though the press would cease publishing two years in). These places are continuously operating as presences in your poetry, particularly the Needles of your youth, in California, the Lower Manhattan in the heyday of New York School Poetry, and the Paris of today. I also have a vinyl record, its like one of those jazz albums. 73DR: Did you like doing it? 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. New York: Penguin, 2001. Notley citesin parta reading by Robert Creeley as early inspiration for her writing more poetry. In 1992, Notley moved to Paris with her second husband, the British poet and novelist Douglas Oliver (19372000), whom she met while living in England in 1974. After the workshop ended, Notley teamed up with students to print copies of their works on the mimeograph machine in the St. Mark's basement. This interview took place in Alice Notleys apartment in Paris, in June 2018. DR: Well I think of Williams as a kind of Calder mobile waiting to enter into movement. Lipstick, Queens, 1947 these were things he just wrote down on this list of possible titles. 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. She lives in Paris. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? There are passing moments that neednt be dwelled upon, but if youre going to go to war against a couple of countries, I think you merit an accusation of doing just that. 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. 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. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa. At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. She is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The couple returned to Chicago for a brief period of time after their year in England before moving to New York City in 1976. 99: Eileen Myles. The Paris Review. Notley also thanks Tom Clark who would go on to re-publish the sonnet cycle in his anthology All Stars. Wholeness is not the same as unity. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. 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. Mixed media collage, 8.5 x 9.75 in. What if youre not sure what kind of person you are? You can read her biography, an interview with Notley, and more of her poems in the Poetry Foundation archive. 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 collages actually reflect the situation of overabundance. The indeterminacy, one suspects, is the point. 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. contact email: nicksturm00@gmail.com The range, audacity, and radical commitments of Alice Notley's poetry are unmatched in contemporary literature. AN: His werent poetry workshops: he taught undergraduate courses at Columbia. In fact, the strong memories of starting points, including the vegetation, you just evoked link you to your New York School entourage. New York: Penguin, 1998. 120DR: He was deeply inspired by the Hindu tradition, which was brave and opens the culture up. DR: Its also what Andr Breton mentions, in his book. Way too . Recent books continue to be at least somewhat character centered. The stream of shattered consciousness is occasionally punctuated by shaped picture-poems, variously representing a ship, a face, a winged coyote. Cellophane-covered CD. I had it for a long time and it started to break. I the People Chicago: C Press, 1971. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. But although it feels dashed-off, OHaras essay is more than fashionable flash. In this Poem Talk podcast devoted to this poem, it is read as a sort of non-political political poem, bringing the personal into the public. Ed. how to express it. 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. Alice Notley, Live in Seattle, Portland, WA: Fonograf Editions (Octopus Books), 2019. 11It was a collaboration of sorts, though I generally do not collaborate; I really hate it. 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. David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. YouTube. Ive mostly dredged it all up, and I know how to get to it without dreaming. 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). He spent two years in India, which changed everything about him. . AN: Yes, they were the two Irish of the set. , Fifth edition, vol.2. For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979, p. 911-1772. DR: Its a beautiful indictment of bureaucracies and their inhuman treatment. On Ted Berrigans exuberant and idiosyncratic prose. It was reissued in 2021 by the London-based small press Distance No Object. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. 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. Alice Notley: That's the future. 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). I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. 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. The first workshop that I taught was a crucial one for that generation actually. , Saint Marks Poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. 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). 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BRETON, Andr. Perpetually strapped for cash, the two took on whatever small jobs they could to support the family. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 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. where it was horizontal on the page. nature. My mother had broken her hip. Entitled The Speak Angel Series, her latest collection of new material is forthcoming from . Perhaps some of Notleys techniques have been absorbed into contemporary poetrys vocabulary, but, as long as conformity threatens, Notley will continue to push against it, or perhaps simply beyond it. Its more like a pause between metrical feet. Photographer unknown, Alice Notley teaching a workshop, Saint Marks Poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. [4] Notley's second book, Phoebe Light, was published in 1973 by Bill Berkson's Bolinas-based press Big Sky.[5]. Notley was born on November 8, 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. All rights reserved. Mystery of Small Houses. Can we talk a little bit about the pop culture that figures in your work? 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. Im working on arcane things at the moment which I find hard to talk about. You and Ted published it in your review, Chicago (1974). Her work is various, spontaneous, and increasingly mythological. Her honors and awards include an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. I dont know anything about French pop culture at all; Im necessarily estranged from American pop culture, but I do sometimes know whats going on in music. NOTLEY, Alice. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. 74AN: Well, you learn a lot from teaching, at the beginning. AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. The words at night the states serve as a refrain that marks the beginning of each stanza. 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