Which is something that John Ashbery would probably have agreed with, in a way. Of course, we salute their past: all the greats, Guillaume Apollinaire and Pierre Reverdy, and some well-known others. She received a BA from Barnard College in 1967, and an MFA from the the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. The couple returned to Chicago for a brief period of time after their year in England before moving to New York City in 1976. DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, and Sycamore Review. 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. 23AN: We were children then, basically. Cellophane-covered CD. Need a transcript of this episode? There are others of course, but could you begin by speaking around those atmospheres? The Art of Poetry No. 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. I. 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). The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be "our present-day 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. 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. Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing Alette. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. 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. Its small and a bit fragile. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Then he writes poetry in the variable foot which is a huge influence on my later work. Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. I just sat in here and wrote about Allen and the international aspect of his work. 24DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. Alice Notley: Im from the desert which I found intensely attractive as nature, and its my nature reallyI havent been back in six years but I love. In these poems, as in much of Notleys work, details from daily life enter in fragments that can be both entertaining and jarringly serious. 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.. AN: Well, I broke it. 57, no. Having published continuously for over 50 years, Notley is one of the most important and celebrated American poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. 75DR: Speaking of Anne Waldman somehow makes me think of the presence of Native Americans in your work. In this emblematic early piece, the text spills across the page. 37DR: Historically, painting is central to cultural New York and to New York poetry. much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). At that stage, Allen Ginsberg, a really fine person, was extremely supportive. AN: Well possiblyI take in a lot of things that I dont know about, or that I dont remember. Automatically inside their apartment, you don't have. I think all poets do that; its also something out of the tradition of folk music. I actually feel bad when I dont write, like yesterday, but I always have something going on. Dsamre. 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). DR: Your attitude towards staleness in the academic world, your sensitivity towards these questions of history and politics, indeed your measure and courage for speaking out reminds me of one first-generation New York School poet in particular, Kenneth Koch. 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. Indeed, French poetry has had some weird times, where it got so abstract. Her poems have also been compared to Gertrude Stein, as well as her contemporary Bernadette Mayer. 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. That unusual, horizontal format was probably done to fit the long lines in. Notley moved frequently in her youth (e.g., San Francisco, Bolinas, London, Essex, Chicago) and eventually married the . 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. Alice Notley on her life with Ted Berrigan. BAYM, Nina. 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. . Active in the New York poetry scene of the 1960s and 70s, Notley is often identified with the Second Generation New York School poets, though her work resists any period classification. 11It was a collaboration of sorts, though I generally do not collaborate; I really hate it. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa. Notley also thanks Tom Clark who would go on to re-publish the sonnet cycle in his anthology All Stars. Baby (1979). AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. 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. focusing on the foot; and hes probably also aware of the foot when hes doing the short stanzas. It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. 99: Eileen Myles. The Paris Review. Alice Notley, Live in Seattle, Portland, WA: Fonograf Editions (Octopus Books), 2019. New York: Chax Press, 2010. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. In Notleys hands, the free-roving speech of poets like OHara became a new way of exploring the permeability of identity on the page. 4. where it was horizontal on the page. The Art of Poetry No. I had it for a long time and it started to break. There werent a lot of cacti where I lived, but there were a lot of bushes. , 1998. 42AN: We were all doing them. poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too The others were like me, though Hispanic and black. I think I know how to do things with my voice that are entirely musical. 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. The poem has been seen as offering a feminist critique of the genre of epic poetry. NOTLEY, Alice. There were various famous people now that were in it like Susie Timmons. That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. 44AN: That photo in the middle is me at age ten, I think. And Virgil: Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab orisItaliam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit: Thats the opening of the Aeneid and the opening of the Iliad is: , . My parents were from Arizona. Nina Baym. Notleys writing at this time begins to shift away from singular poems and toward book-length projects with overarching styles and themes. Photographer unknown, Alice Notleys father doing the Hopi snake dance, c. 1945, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. 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. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. Alice Notleys poetry has evolved through many phases and experiments, as her output continues to be strong, and is increasingly studied academically. Dismiss. In that sad, beautiful book, theres so much irony, whereas some literary critics take everything at face value. There was one called How Green Was My Hair Brush? which was a Ron title. I would write during that high, meanwhile I would listen to Bob Dylan tapes. DR: To pursue with craft questions: in the. Entitled The Speak Angel Series, her latest collection of new material is forthcoming from . Where Leftover Misery Goes. Chain 7, Memoir/Antimemoir; Summer 2000, p. 147-151. I picked ten poems at random to see how dispersed they were based on my working theory that they had a wide geographical scope. Ive never thought of her as a poet: sometimes I think she doesnt know anything about poetry at all. 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. 39DR: It seems to be an inspired collage. NOTLEY, Alice. [10] Some of Notley's most famous engagements with the poetry community while in NYC were her workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, which were attended by dozens of young poets including Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones, Steve Carey, and Susie Timmons. He could write any time he wanted to; Im like that too. He was my political education really. This guy is doing vinyl records of poets and hes done a series including one of me and one of Eileen [Myles]. Doug [Oliver] had died, and it was 2001. Detroit was burning and poetry was on fire. There were various famous people now that were in it like Susie Timmons. He could write any time he wanted to; Im like that too. It always felt to me like I was enacting ideas that visual artists had normally, that I was figuring it out. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. AN: I read it when I was about twenty-three, in English. 84AN: You dont have to breathe between them. 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. After earning her BA from Barnard College and MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, Notley traveled extensively around the U.S. and abroad. I went downstairs. Somewhere, I have a photo of my father with a snake in his mouth and every year that he did it, he got a little tattoo of a star on his hand; and my mother danced the year she was pregnant with me the. 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. 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. Mystery of Small Houses. 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). Produced by Curtis Fox. Actually, when I read The Descent of Alette, high-school students get similarly entranced. Particularly the middle one. The first time I went there I was completely humiliated by the people working there. 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. I like that it's a manuscript and not a book. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. There are different paces and reading styles possible; the performance can be different each time. New York: Unimproved, 1986. , and she taught me the song later, and my father taught me the chant for the Apache Dog Dance. 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. This interview took place in Alice Notleys apartment in Paris, in June 2018. KOCH, Kenneth. New York: Penguin, 1996. Its from Homer. The poet Heather Christles book, which is built of fragments of varying lengths, examines the science, sociology, and history of weeping. AN: 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. , CA, c.1985, courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. Revue dtudes amricaines. I actually feel bad when I dont write, like yesterday, but I always have something going on. AN: I wrote an essay about her work in a book of essays called. 80AN: Probably, I wouldnt dance, but Anne might. 108AN: Yes, towards the end of number fourteen, the last one. In an important essay titled The Poetics of Disobedience, Notley says this shift began with her book The Descent of Alette (1992). My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. Eileen was in it, as was Bob Holman. The character One is a kind of joke (Notley has always had an oddball sense of humor), but a joke that underscores the flimsiness of a stable idea of the self. 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: American Poets Project Library of America, 2004. NOTLEY, Alice. This is perhaps one of Notleys ways of repurposing male influences: what for Apollinaire seemed like a bold transcription of modern life, evoking the frenetic motion of photography and film, is for Notley a figure of timelessness and stillness, a place where picture and pictogram cant be fully pulled apart. Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. xx. This is typical of what happens when I make a collage. My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. 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. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama, An introduction to one ofthe most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry. I can do that with my speaking voice in poems. Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothque de La Pliade, 1988, p. 643-753. Table of Contents My mother was always curious and interested. 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. Dismiss. 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. DR: I think for the reader those part-words can function to foreground an elsewhere. . Alls well.. His zips are like obelisks; theyre like sculptures inside the paintings. 93DR: To pursue with craft questions: in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1979), in talking about Marianne Moore, they say: Pound writes with the phrase, Williams writes with the line, H.D writes with the image, Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein write with the word, but Marianne Moore writes with the entire stanza, and I was just wondering if there was a unit that you use? For some 45 years, she has striven against the forces that stifle idiosyncrasy. 16DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. 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. Miles Davis live at Birdland or something. 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. She distrusts change. 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. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? New York: Unimproved Editions, 1986. (1979), in talking about Marianne Moore, they say: Pound writes with the phrase, Williams writes with the line, H.D writes with the image, Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein write with the word, but Marianne Moore writes with the entire stanza, and I was just wondering if there was a unit that you use? Can we talk a little bit about the pop culture that figures in your work? 98DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. I was one of his friends in Paris. I didnt know any French; I had no French when I came here, basically, in my late forties. ; 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. Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. . NOTLEY, Alice. NOTLEY, Alice. The poet and essayist talks about her newest essay collection Minor Feelings, waking Alice Notley, Al Filreis, Erica Kaufman, Joe Milutis, Zack Pieper. This is "THE PROPHET BY ALICE NOTLEY" by John Galvin on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 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 . Songs And Stories Of The Ghouls. November 2014. 89DR: Right, thats a strong, colonizing streak in Western culture. River beneath appearances. 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. In the case of John Ashbery, theres a poem called Syringa (1977) with an Orphean motif. 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. It emasculates her. AN: I was there. To Annapurna or Mt. My mother had broken her hip. 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). 15AN: 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. Notleys struggle for solace and understanding is all the more moving for its contradictions, confusions, and stutters. I have some Cherokee Blood, perhaps one-sixteenth Cherokee. AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. Notley remained fairly prolific during this era, writing and publishing several full-length collections. I knew him in New York, where I saw him from time to time; but after I moved here, he sought me out. 49DR: In that book, the heroine is a true medium who can look at someones face and know things, and at the end she is taken off to the asylum; Andr Breton then rails for two pages about how misguided asylums are, which makes your collage seem to be broaching the question of clairvoyance in terms of surrealistic, poetic culture. My book, (1992) features Robert Desnos and uses patterns from the. Recent poems about pregnancy, birth, and being a mother. My mother was always curious and interested. In her earlier work, Notley often incorporated the speech of people around her, particularly her children (as in her masterpiece January). Everyone who went there was either black or Hispanic. 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. Since I had all these poems without titles, I just randomly assigned Rons titles to the poems that ended up in. DR: Did you like doing it? West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1981. Cars & the variously shod feet were born. The incentives to engage in selfish, destructive action are as strong as they always have been. In March 2021, Notley was a guest blogger forHarriet. 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. AN: Yes, they were the two Irish of the set. 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. Photographer unknown, Alice Notley teaching a workshop, Saint Marks Poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. 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. Those are the ones Im working on right now, which have to do with my poetry of the moment. So, there were people from all different professions at the table, a few Americans and some artistic peoplebut not that many. 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. STEIN, Gertrude. Alice Notley has become one of America's greatest living poets. 82AN: Its not a dance; its a pattern of sounds: its in my voice which I think is sometimes better than singing, when I say the poems. NOTLEY, Alice. 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). She is, to borrow the title from her 2011 collection, a culture of onea singular voice and the medium of many. 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. Poems and prose about conflict, armed conflict, and poetry's role in shaping perceptions and outcomes of war. 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. I went downstairs. But I met himI met everybodyaround 1968. Other beings begin to materialize, and it seems that they are all survivors of a global disaster. Its rare when a book summary isnt entirely sure whats going on inside, and such enigmas are either an irritant or central to Notleys mystique, depending on your taste. 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, Parts of a Wedding (1986). 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. If we compare them with painting, they work like the zips in Newmans painting. Eileen was twelve. 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? Sonnet staying at the Htel des Grands Hommes with his surrealist friends, who wont get into the Panthon either. Like the Hollywood marriage in this poem, Notley and Berrigans creative partnership was loving, mutually enriching, and, as she shows us here, a bit magical. It seems nobody has any sense of tone of voice any more. I would like some help. Whereupon, she just totally melted. In 2015, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. By Alice Notley. 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. turn right, that dream building cutglass window in door. That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. And Virgil: (2011): she is a female character who suffers a kind of erasure, despite being the great queen of Carthage. 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? NOTLEY, Alice. Chicago: C Press, 1971. It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. 119At that stage, Allen Ginsberg, a really fine person, was extremely supportive. 214, fall 2015, p.34-121. This novel in poems, as its jacket copy describes it, covers the life of Marie, a woman who lives in a shack in the town dump. 34AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. Why hurry them along? SoundCloud and One knows ithere, not chains,posh garlands. 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). Individual Time. It seems nobody has any sense of tone of voice any more. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. New Addresses. DR: Such natural presences are important. 25AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. I was wondering if your poems that address completely despicable people might be a case of carrying the enemy on the shoulder. Ive mostly dredged it all up, and I know how to get to it without dreaming. 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