| Description |
xi, 130 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin poets |
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Penguin poets.
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| Contents |
The glyph of chaos with willows -- Save the words -- Radio free ark -- The langue continued -- Return to chaos -- Disembarkment at lost city -- Becoming poems -- Future ancient frescoes -- Temporary furniture -- The stupid battle -- City of nothing -- The new brain -- Wall of words -- Absorbs them -- I have been let out of prison -- Stark star -- The memory of nerves -- Back on ark. |
| Summary |
"Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending, book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness. Her newest book, For the Ride, is another such work. The protagonist, "One," is suddenly within the glyph, whose walls project scenes One can enter, and One does so. Other beings begin to materialize, and it seems like they (and One) are all survivors of a global disaster. They board a ship to flee to another dimension; they decide what they must save on this Ark are words, and they gather together as many as are deemed fit to save. They "sail" and meanwhile begin to change the language they are speaking, before disembarking at an abandoned future city"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Dystopias -- Poetry.
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Science fiction poetry, American.
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Dystopias. (OCoLC)fst00900372
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Science fiction poetry, American. (OCoLC)fst01108628
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Notley, Alice, For the ride [New York] : Penguin Books, [2020] 9780525506386 (DLC) 2019033281 |
| ISBN |
9780143134572 (paperback) |
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0143134574 (paperback) |
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9780525506386 (ebook) |
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