I applied pressure so that the brokenness would have the shape I wanted; then I think I made the back part separately and decided to glue the fan on it. 122DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. 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. 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. Logic KOCH, Kenneth. Alice Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. Dismiss. 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. As 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. focusing on the foot; and hes probably also aware of the foot when hes doing the short stanzas. 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. 6David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. Also in my poem Disobedience (2001), I got the title in a dream about him. 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. In a swerve from the feminine epic, For the Ride seems to want to speak from a place outside of gender, another shrugging-off of what readers have come to expect from Notley. 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. Her poems have also been compared to Gertrude Stein, as well as her contemporary Bernadette Mayer. ALICE NOTLEY has published more than twenty collections of poems. I had met him in 1969, then we stayed friends. 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. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. NOTLEY, Alice. In Notley's epic poem, The Descent of Alette, form takes many shapes. Better to think of the poem as what Notley calls a bricolage, with hints of medieval allegory, jokey slang, strange jags of French. He could write any time he wanted to; Im like that too. STEIN, Gertrude. Songs for the Unborn Second Baby. If we compare them with painting, they work like the zips in Newmans painting. Notley has remained in Paris but makes several trips to the United States each year to give readings and teach small workshops. I grew up among Native Americans. AN: He had no trust in his own ability to write things out, while he had faith in his ability to find things. AN: Complicated as it is, I can sketch it out: basically, everything is just too dense on the planet, which has been a decision made and a byproduct of technology. I had just been in the States. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. 92AN: She was great. Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Alice Notley, Untitled, 1998. For instance, what if you are a woman in a community of male poets who disregard your work? AN: Yes, and that is effectively what the. 68DR: 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. He spent two years in India, which changed everything about him. In March 2021, Notley was a guest blogger forHarriet. 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. Descent would grow to be Notley's most widely read and taught collection after its reprinting by Penguin in 1996. 65DR: Yes, the 1971 poem about writing an earlier poem of the same title, a characteristically clever poetic ploy. Its not around me much now. That is just the beginning. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa. 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. Its small and a bit fragile. Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in Certain Magical Acts. Its more like a pause between metrical feet. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama, An introduction to one ofthe most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. He could write any time he wanted to; Im like that too. I assume I've learned a little more since the last time I taught, and that I've a little more to learn in the teaching. The first time I went there I was completely humiliated by the people working there. Dismiss. The Crying Book Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Cant. . . She has long written in narrative and epic and genre-bending modes to discover new ways to explore the nature of the self and the social and cultural importance of disobedience. Some have linked Notley's geographical move to Parissince it followed a period of intensely personal writingas also marking a creative distance between herself and her poems, though her books Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998) and Culture of One (Penguin, 2011) engage very much with personal matter. 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. 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). In this interview, she mentions other New York Poets (John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Frank OHara, Kenneth Koch, Ron Padgett, Eileen Myles, Anne Waldman, Joe Brainard, Allan Ginsberg, and Bernadette Mayer). She 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. Why poetry is necessary and sought after during crises. David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. Thats what Ive done ever since in different ways. After the war, that tradition was exhausted. Where Leftover Misery Goes.. But he also gave us a new way to think about nature itself. ButI forget. Request a transcript here. 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. 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. There werent a lot of cacti where I lived, but there were a lot of bushes. Ron Padgett. I didnt know any French; I had no French when I came here, basically, in my late forties. Logic sees cities destroyed as poems are stolen; a bloodied performer attempts to win over a non-existent audience in Perhaps Not for You. New York: Scarlet Editions, 1992. I'm calling out from pictures to your vision creating it. Notley was born on November 8, 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. [16] Over two nights, November 14 and 15, 2016, Notley read The Descent of Alette in its entirety at The Lab in San Francisco. I wrote a poem about it in. Can we talk a little bit about the pop culture that figures in your work? [2], After Notley's graduation, she and Berrigan spent periods of time in New York City and Buffalo. Its deliberate, in order to find something out. Left-wing Radicalism in the United States: A Foreign Creed? Notley's elegiac work during this era, including her poems "Beginning With a Stain" and "At Night the States," is some of her most widely celebrated. She describes it as an immense act of rebellion against dominant social forces, against the fragmented forms of modern poetry, against the way a poem was supposed to look according to both past and contemporary practice. The narrator, Alette, finds herself in a feminist epic, on a subway, traveling deeper and deeper in the tunnels, into an underworld filled with caves and otherworldly characters. 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. The designer of the cover made an extract basically, making it wrap around the book cover, which was an attractive idea. 21AN: She lost her father younger than Ted lost his. On Facebook, 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 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. I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. That was written in the Food Stamp Office in 1985. The editors discuss Amy Newman's "Howl," Alice Notley's "This Fire," and a series of limericks by Anthony Madrid. NOTLEY, Alice. 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. Maggie Nelson, in her excellent book about the women of the New York School, describes Notleys later aesthetic as Fuck You the reader, fuck mainstream poetry, fuck avant-garde poetry, fuck France, fuck America, fuck daily life, fuck death, and so on.. And that other one was something I just picked up from the sidewalk. 89DR: Right, thats a strong, colonizing streak in Western culture. Sometimes I have in-between projects and that is a tough situation; because, I usually dont write as well then, indeed, I never quite know what to do at those moments. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. Thats what Ive done ever since in different ways. DR: To pursue with craft questions: in the. There was a piece of paper on my door that said: in your building there were two Jewish children who were taken to the camps; we are going to have a ceremony for the unveiling of a plaque on the rue de Chabrol. 37DR: Historically, painting is central to cultural New York and to New York poetry. 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). I went down there is simple, but it is rich. Why? 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 Circus (1971). Mixed media collage, 8.5 x 9.75 in. And the past & future & I born too. Theres that magical phenomenon with small children, before they get to be about four, where, if you start singing, they suddenly look at you, hooked. In these poems, as in much of Notleys work, details from daily life enter in fragments that can be both entertaining and jarringly serious. Like somebody live in some city. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. 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. I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. Mixed media collage, 8.5 x 9.75 in. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. 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.. 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. My current process is to write in the morning. Education: Barnard College, New York, B.A. The stream of shattered consciousness is occasionally punctuated by shaped picture-poems, variously representing a ship, a face, a winged coyote. 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. So, there were people from all different professions at the table, a few Americans and some artistic peoplebut not that many. I had it for a long time and it started to break. 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). Within the text, a woman is desperate to take her daughter above ground, therefore she offers to pay the tyrant money. I dreamed about the children afterwards, you know, there were children being chased in this building. Im closely influenced by them, and working with Apollinaire at the moment. I would give a task often based on traditional forms, or I would get an idea for a subject; and sometimes I used Kenneths books, because he was writing all those books then about teaching in nursing homes and to groups of small children. I never understand what to do or how to do it, I understand that I The poet Heather Christles book, which is built of fragments of varying lengths, examines the science, sociology, and history of weeping. 94AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. 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. The Art of Poetry: John Ashbery. Ed. 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. 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. Your brain becomes taffy. AN: We were children then, basically. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be "our present-day Homer." Alice Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. . Eileen was in it, as was Bob Holman. Since I had all these poems without titles, I just randomly assigned Rons titles to the poems that ended up in. Alice Notleys poetry has evolved through many phases and experiments, as her output continues to be strong, and is increasingly studied academically. The text is visually striking with quotation marks surrounding each poetic foot, intended to slow the reader down and indicate the pace at which the book is to be read. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. As in her feminist epic The Descent of Alette, the quotation marks here both interrupt and sustain. I made this in about 2005. 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. New York: Unimproved Editions, 1986. I always liked his paintings. Notley has said that her decision to place the refrain at the beginning of the stanza rather than the end is what allowed her to continue writing the poem. I mean sometimes theres a lot of garbage but not usable garbage and so it takes me a long time to get anything made. 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 I know how to do things with my voice that are entirely musical. because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. I havent changed much since I first began writing: 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. [12] Her own book, entitled Parts of a Wedding, was published first in a small edition by Unimproved Editions then later as a section of the O Books anthology O One.[13]. Then I figured out how to write them, so they enter the text. Notley moved frequently in her youth (e.g., San Francisco, Bolinas, London, Essex, Chicago) and eventually married the . DR: 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. 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. For Frank OHara's Birthday. AN: I wouldnt be able to take the journey if I couldnt hear the poem thats all based on folk songs and not those lines, but I was writing In the Pines while I was doing the Hepatitis C treatment, where the drugs would depress you, but once a week you would have to take a shot which, they didnt tell you, would get you high for a half hour before you got sick. I just sat in here and wrote about Allen and the international aspect of his work. This is typical of what happens when I make a collage. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. There was pleasure in working with that discovery. 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. [3] The Paris Review Interviews vol. But although it feels dashed-off, OHaras essay is more than fashionable flash. The poet and essayist talks about her newest essay collection Minor Feelings, waking Alice Notley, Al Filreis, Erica Kaufman, Joe Milutis, Zack Pieper. I have some Cherokee Blood, perhaps one-sixteenth Cherokee. She was married the British poet Douglas Oliver until his death in 2000. It always felt to me like I was enacting ideas that visual artists had normally, that I was figuring it out. 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. I would write during that high, meanwhile I would listen to Bob Dylan tapes. The sense of something escaping is well illustrated by your poem, Where Leftover Misery Goes, among others. I thought that that printing added something, though: I enjoyed turning the book to read the poem. (1945) a couple of years ago because she was being bashed in the States again: they were underlining her Vichy connections in order to make her into a kind of villain, without any regard for how difficult it must have been: a lesbian living with another lesbian, in her sixties, in a country that wasnt her own country, Jewish, thus a prime candidate for the camps. Particularly the middle one. But I met himI met everybodyaround 1968. All rights reserved. Kilkenny (irlands: Cill Chainnigh [cil xani], que significa 'iglesia de Cainnech') es una ciudad en el condado de Kilkenny, Irlanda. 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. In 1972, Berrigan and Notley married and moved to Chicago, where they lived until 1976. 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 sense of something escaping is well illustrated by your poem, Where Leftover Misery Goes, among others. 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? I would write during that high, meanwhile I would listen to Bob Dylan tapes. Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. 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. hard and deeply about each part as I go along. 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. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). There are different paces and reading styles possible; the performance can be different each time. 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. 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). Notleys struggle for solace and understanding is all the more moving for its contradictions, confusions, and stutters. Cathy Park Hong has some thoughts for you, and some thoughts on how best to share them. DR: There are some lines from your poems, wrought like those in Stein, that one could carry in ones head all day and it would color that day; for example, that thinks but not only on words is one; all thats left of the old world are beautiful voices, is another that might change ones day. Notley left Needles for New York City to attend Barnard College in 1963, desiring an escape from the isolation of her hometown. The books were published under the imprint Unimproved Editions and Notley made cover art for the majority of the titles. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. That was one of the first things Ted [Berrigan] told me about John: he kept a list of titles, like Civilization and Its Discontents, then he would decide, Ah, that would be a great title for a poem, and then later he would check his list and pull that title out. Courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. But people often say that Marianne Moore writes with the whole sentence. 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. The artist George Schneeman, perhaps most famous for his artworks that appeared on the covers of dozens of books of poetry, did all of the covers for the magazine. For some 45 years, she has striven against the forces that stifle idiosyncrasy. As Notley writes in "The Prophet" (1981): "One is you & all this & two & yet." The yet is where poetry begins. staying at the Htel des Grands Hommes with his surrealist friends, who wont get into the Panthon either. AN: Virgil was just this poet and he had to contend with Augustus Caesar. Ive mostly dredged it all up, and I know how to get to it without dreaming. 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. Indeed, French poetry has had some weird times, where it got so abstract. I have some Cherokee Blood, perhaps one-sixteenth Cherokee. She was in my workshop. 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. She distrusts change. 106AN: Thats from In the Pines (2007). West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1981. Doug [Oliver] had died, and it was 2001. (2006). 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. A fairly long poem that Notley generally reads quickly, At Night the States gives the reader a feeling of being pulled through grief and back into life, with irregular syntax signaling the disruption to day-to-day living caused by a great loss. This is before the lost sacred corpus vision, someone says Look at my author photo. I went downstairs. Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth edition, vol.2. Then he writes poetry in the variable foot which is a huge influence on my later work. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. 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. Her children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmond Berrigan are both New York Poets of a younger generation. 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