alice notley the prophet

Chicago: C Press, 1971. After the war, that tradition was exhausted. DR: Its also what Andr Breton mentions, in his book. Although she is a Parisian now, Alice Notley was also a key figure on the Lower Manhattan poetry scene particularly of the late 1970s and the 1980s. 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. 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. A passage from For the Ride (2020), by Alice Notley. Notleys work is famously heterogeneous, but its possible to see a gradual shift in her work, beginning in the mid-eighties, away from the New York Schools emphasis on ordinary detail and the surfaces of daily city life. The others were like me, though Hispanic and black. Notleys writing at this time begins to shift away from singular poems and toward book-length projects with overarching styles and themes. The first workshop that I taught was a crucial one for that generation actually. He was my political education really. Its refreshing to read poetry so dedicated to its own ends, even if they are occasionally inscrutable. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. Can we talk a little bit about the pop culture that figures in your work? Alice Notley on her life with Ted Berrigan. DR: The disturbing political and historical moment we are experiencing could disrupt many. 44AN: That photo in the middle is me at age ten, I think. Humbleflannel skeleton. I picked ten poems at random to see how dispersed they were based on my working theory that they had a wide geographical scope. Notley gave birth to their first son, Anselm Berrigan, named after Anselm Hollo, in 1972, as well. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing. For me, Williams mostly writes by the word. (1976). 30DR: In your work, theres something in the interstices between thoughts thats both intriguing and active. 107DR: Lets see, arrive the exactitude of pitch the tune in words alone; thats In the Pines too. Alice Notley continues to live in Paris and makes frequent trips to the U.S. to give readings and lectures. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetryalthough she has always denied being involved with the New York School or any specific movement in general. AN: I dont think thats true of her poetry though, and I dont think thats what John did exactly. He gave everybody permission to be funny. 78When 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. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? American Literature between the Wars, 1914-1945. Gen. Ed. In this emblematic early piece, the text spills across the page. Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. 84AN: You dont have to breathe between them. I would write during that high, meanwhile I would listen to Bob Dylan tapes. DR: In your work, theres something in the interstices between thoughts thats both intriguing and active. Need a transcript of this episode? The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. To Annapurna or Mt. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. 33DR: I think for the reader those part-words can function to foreground an elsewhere. First, the way the fan that tapers at the top disorients the view, because the fan is supposed to open up, not reduce. The poet Heather Christles book, which is built of fragments of varying lengths, examines the science, sociology, and history of weeping. DR: Thats what Ted Berrigan was about: taking things from here and there, picking them up, and making them his own. 120DR: He was deeply inspired by the Hindu tradition, which was brave and opens the culture up. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. . [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. 4Since then, her poetry has continued to flow and evolve. AN: I was there. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. I can do that with my speaking voice in poems. In Heavens Breath, Lyall Watson created a wildly entertaining history of the wind. Its deliberate, in order to find something out. 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 think all poets do that; its also something out of the tradition of folk music. 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.. Making oneself now,oh One. I have some Cherokee Blood, perhaps one-sixteenth Cherokee. NOTLEY, Alice and Ted BERRIGAN, editors. Her search culminated in The Descent of Alette (1992), a book-length poem that tells the story of a woman questing through a sinister subway underworld. Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in. NOTLEY, Alice. New York: New Directions, 1962. 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. (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? 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. Benjamin Voigt grew up on a small farm in upstate New York. Eileen was twelve. 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. 104AN: That was below that bed: the voices were calling to me from below the bed. I dont give a As Notley writes in The Prophet (1981): One is you & all this & two & yet. The yet is where poetry begins. Whats my plot? , in a Chicago museum. Alice Notley - 1945-. 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. NOTLEY, Alice. DR: I think he interrupts the thought, but the thought he interrupts keeps going. 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. (2005), and I have essays in it about her and Joanne Kyger, Ted Berrigan, Lorenzo Thomas, Frank OHara, and some others. 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. ASHBERY, John. 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. 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. Actually, when I read, , high-school students get similarly entranced. There was a black woman at a desk when I went in who said, What are you 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). 50AN: Well possiblyI take in a lot of things that I dont know about, or that I dont remember. 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. Also in my poem Disobedience (2001), I got the title in a dream about him. I quoted from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (1979). I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. Early on, I understood that was something you could enjoy doing out of folk music. 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. 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. In response, another woman informs: "'he . , Montreal: Club Roll, 2012. I had just been in the States. The Paris Review Interviews vol. 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. 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. New York: Scarlet Editions, 1992. 61Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. Notley began the magazine to connect with preexisting poet friends and meet new writers on both coasts while living in the midwest. 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. 21AN: She lost her father younger than Ted lost his. Ron Padgett. All the political problems are based in history. , CA, c.1985, courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. 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. 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. Coming After. 34AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, and Sycamore Review. 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. 73DR: Did you like doing it? 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? Mixed media collage, 8.5 x 9.75 in. DR: He was deeply inspired by the Hindu tradition, which was brave and opens the culture up. Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. Her work is various, spontaneous, and increasingly mythological. Notley was born on November 8, 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. This guy is doing vinyl records of poets and hes done a series including one of me and one of Eileen [Myles]. And that other one was something I just picked up from the sidewalk. New Addresses was influenced by my autobiographical book that almost won the Pulitzer Prize, Mystery of Small Houses (1998), getting him to dredge up his past, bravely. I made this in about 2005. 110AN: I wouldnt be able to take the journey if I couldnt hear the poem thats all based on folk songs and not those lines, but I was writing In the Pines while I was doing the Hepatitis C treatment, where the drugs would depress you, but once a week you would have to take a shot which, they didnt tell you, would get you high for a half hour before you got sick. Request a transcript here. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979, p. 911-1772. [6], While in Chicago, Notley started publishing her magazine Chicago, a legal-sized mimeograph publication which would continue through both her pregnancies and even her relocation to England. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. Its small and a bit fragile. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. She has lived most extensively in Needles, in New York, and since 1992 in Paris, France. The designer of the cover made an extract basically, making it wrap around the book cover, which was an attractive idea. 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 in my workshop. Theres no garbage. [17], Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. Doug [Oliver] had died, and it was 2001. Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. DR: Eileen Myles is another poet who comes from an Irish, working-class, New England background and lost her father. 100DR: What do you think of Gertrude Stein and of the kind of permutations she does: almost like rolling things around in your mouth? DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat.. It emasculates her. 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. So I grew up as friends with Native Americans, and imbued with certain things; I was also attuned to what had happened, without knowing fully, because there was a kind of sadness among the Mojaves in my town, along with immense curiosity and interest among some Anglos. At that point Alice Notley was finding New York less amenable and was keen to go somewhere else. DR: Yes, the 1971 poem about writing an earlier poem of the same title, a characteristically clever poetic ploy. He spent two years in India, which changed everything about him. Those are the ones Im working on right now, which have to do with my poetry of the moment. 57DR: Now I heard you say that the cadences for The Descent of Alette emerged from Monteverdi. 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. 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. Alice Notley has become one of Americas greatest living poets. 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. 121AN: No, never: when I address enemies, I am not carrying them on my shoulder; Im being intensely annoyed by them. 79DR: Where leftover misery goes Can a poem be like a dance? Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. 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. Left-wing Radicalism in the United States: A Foreign Creed? 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. 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 could have a conversation about Royal Trux: a very chaotic indie group, sometimes awful, sometimes amazingly brilliant. 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. 99AN: Frank caught how great Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems (1962) was. Notleys ceaseless productivity hints at a method counter to the heavy emphasis on, and even fetishization of, craft that forms the cornerstone of poetrys increasing professionalization. , Memoir/Antimemoir; Summer 2000, p. 147-151. Alice Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. focusing on the foot; and hes probably also aware of the foot when hes doing the short stanzas. 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. 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. I actually feel bad when I dont write, like yesterday, but I always have something going on. [3] Notley gave birth to her and Berrigan's second child, Edmund Berrigan, at Colchester Hospital in 1974. Too many 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 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. 92AN: She was great. 22DR: Like Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman reading at Saint Marks church their collaborative poem, Memorial Day (May 6, 1971), that episode of Public Access Television, June 16, 1977, where you and Eileen Myles read together must count among the great New York School moments still on record. The signature of her work is a restless reinvention and a distrust of groupthink that remains true to her forebears directive: to not give a damn. But I met himI met everybodyaround 1968. New York: Penguin, 1998. I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. . Theres a poem where you talk about meeting Teds mother. 98DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. Poems for milestone birthdays and those in-between. There are others over there. 29AN: He has complete syntactical thoughts, then he interrupts things at the conjunction. 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. First, the way the fan that tapers at the top disorients the view, because the fan is supposed to open up, not reduce. MYLES, Eileen. Its more like a pause between metrical feet. But only One is here.One is composed of words like one makes in beginning, chaotically.One makes them? NOTLEY, Alice. In that sad, beautiful book, theres so much irony, whereas some literary critics take everything at face value. Among her two newest volumes are Eurynomes Sandals (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2019) and For the Ride (Penguin Books, 2020). Join now Sign in . The others were like me, though Hispanic and black. 64AN: He was a good friend. YouTube. Like somebody live in some city. That particular poem is in your selected poems, in Grave of Light (2006), and it was presented upright on the page, but it was published in a review called Chain (2000) and in the Best American Poetry series (2001) where it was horizontal on the page. We know how inane the decision was that everybody would have a car, completely destroying the planet. That unusual, horizontal format was probably done to fit the long lines in. I was wondering if your poems that address completely despicable people might be a case of carrying the enemy on the shoulder. Baby (1979). 69AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. For death? 4. To come back to this one, I read it as a kind of danse macabre because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. Alice Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. 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. 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. New York: Unimproved Editions, 1986. 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. Ive always had trouble getting materials here. New York: Chax Press, 2010. Notley also thanks Tom Clark who would go on to re-publish the sonnet cycle in his anthology All Stars. 11It was a collaboration of sorts, though I generally do not collaborate; I really hate it. 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). My mother was always curious and interested. hard and deeply about each part as I go along. 72As for my teaching at the Saint Marks poetry project, I gave assignments from week to week and I made the students bring in those rather than the poems they wrote on their own, to hold discussion without my having to criticize them too much. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama, An introduction to one ofthe most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry. Nina Baym. Reason and Other Women. In her earlier work, Notley often incorporated the speech of people around her, particularly her children (as in her masterpiece January). AN: I read it when I was about twenty-three, in English. In the Pines, Montreal: Club Roll, 2012. I do write down my dreams, though I havent been dreaming much lately; but Ive been doing that for years. Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems and The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954): that book is fantastic; he caught the new line, which he refers to in one of his letters. There werent a lot of cacti where I lived, but there were a lot of bushes. New York: Scribner Poetry, 2001, p.120-124. 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. David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. Kilkenny. If we compare them with painting, they work like the zips in Newmans painting. Just like I did. The jacket copy attempts to sketch the books plot: the protagonist, named One, is suddenly within the Glyph. Cellophane-covered CD. At a certain point I wrote them down every morning; sometimes I do it more than others. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). 88AN: Yes, and that is effectively what the Aeneid, which is certainly a splendid and beautiful poem, does. 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. 116AN: I was there. This period also marked an increase in scholarly interest in Notley's work. Notley wrote extensively about pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing at a time when the poetry world was often inhospitable to women. 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. Kenneth Koch Selected Poems. 77For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. Oakland: O Books, 1995. 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. The incentives to engage in selfish, destructive action are as strong as they always have been. A similar style is found in other poems from that era, including I the People. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. DR: What do you think of Gertrude Stein and of the kind of permutations she does: almost like rolling things around in your mouth? At the same moment, at Saint Marks, Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, and I taught poetry workshops. Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres, the postmodern series, the newly invented epic, political observation and invective, and the poem as novel. One knows ithere, not chains,posh garlands. 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). In 2015, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. One of the lines in that particular poem is actually straight from Dylan, which I finally just say: I know no one can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell. Id been quoting from the song all the way through in the whole poem. AN: To quote Jack Kerouac, avoid the authorities. If you have the talent you have to avoid them. My name is ending refused Notleys persistent nonconformismone of her most difficult works is called Disobedienceinsists that further possibilities exist. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 25AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. 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 . Tracing the fight for equality and womens rights through poetry. where it was horizontal on the page. Instead of second-guessing their style, we could talk about the way they handled the tasks. The Goddess Who Created This Passing World In Notleys hands, the free-roving speech of poets like OHara became a new way of exploring the permeability of identity on the page. Aeneas founded a city, Rome. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa. because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. Notley was born in Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. 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). DR: Your humor, in poems like The Prophet (which asks hilariously, Does a hippopotamus get the shakes?) is slightly less well known than your readiness to tackle political subjects. The Descent of Alette. , Wesleyan University Press, 2006 (p.292-293), reproduced with permission of the author. At the same moment, at Saint Marks, Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, and I taught poetry workshops. Over the course of Alice Notley's long and prolific career she's written more than 25 books since 1971 readers have assigned her any number of identities: native of the American West,. 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. The incentives to engage in selfish, destructive action are as strong as they always have been. Cathy Park Hong has some thoughts for you, and some thoughts on how best to share them. Of course, we salute their past: all the greats, Guillaume Apollinaire and Pierre Reverdy, and some well-known others. AN: Yes, and that is effectively what the. NOTLEY, Alice. There's an unfinishedness. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. NOTLEY, Alice. 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