| Description |
xi, 364 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Wesleyan poetry |
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Wesleyan poetry.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"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. This chronological selection of her most notable work offers a delineation of her life and creative development. Formerly associated with the second generation of the New York School, Notley has become a poet with a completely distinctive voice. Grave of Light is a progression of changing forms and styles--an extensive panorama held together explicitly by the shape of the poet's times. Notley's poems challenge their subjects head-on, suffusing language with radiant truth."--Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography |
"List of poems by titles of first publication": pages 349-355. |
| Contents |
from Love Poems -- from 165 Meeting House Lane -- Dear Dark Continent 8 -- Incidentals in the Day World 9 -- Your Dailiness 19 -- But He Says I Misunderstood 24 -- from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby from 1 26 -- "Alice ordered me to be made" 33 -- The Virtue of Uncreatedness 37 -- Endless Day 39 -- 30th Birthday 42 -- January 44 -- How Spring Comes 52 -- Little Egypt 57 -- Sonnet 60 -- A California Girlhood 60 -- Poem ("St. Mark's Place caught at night in hot summer, ") 63 -- When I Was Alive 64 -- After Tsang Chih 65 -- Today 65 -- You 66 -- The Goddess Who Created This Passing World 67 -- Untitled 68 -- "If she says that she's the goddess Fortune" 68 -- The World, All That Live & All That Occur 69 -- Bus Stop 70 -- Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice 71 -- The Locket 73 -- September's Book 75 -- A True Account of Talking to Judy Holiday, October 13 91 -- Poem ("You hear that heroic big land music?") 93 -- The Prophet 94 -- Desert for All of Music to Take Place 106 -- Untitled ("Clouds, big ones oh it's") 114 -- Flowers of the Foothills & Mountain Valleys 114 -- World's Bliss 115 -- Waltzing Matilda 116 -- Untitled ("All my life, ") 135 -- Postcards 135 -- White Evening Primrose 140 -- Memorial Day 140 -- Margaret and Dusty 141 -- La Mort 142 -- Congratulating Wedge 142 -- The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books 148 -- So Much 149 -- Poem ("Why do I want to tell it") 150 -- Love 151 -- It Would 151 -- Weekend Weather 152 -- At Night the States 153 -- from Parts of a Wedding -- from Beginning with a Stain -- 'You haven't saved me any time' 184 -- 'What does she think?' 185 -- Homer's Art 186 -- Mother Mask 188 -- White Phosphorus 190 -- from The Descent of Alette -- from Close to me and Closer ... (The Language of Heaven) -- from Desamere -- from Mysteries of Small Houses -- from Disobedience -- from Reason and Other Women -- from Benediction -- Iphigenia 309 -- from Alma, or The Dead Women -- from In the Pines -- from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls -- List of Poems by Titles of First Publication 349. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| ISBN |
0819567728 (hbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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9780819567727 (hbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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