I just sat in here and wrote about Allen and the international aspect of his work. Syringa. Houseboat Days. In these poems, as in much of Notleys work, details from daily life enter in fragments that can be both entertaining and jarringly serious. NOTLEY, Alice. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. 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. 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. It emasculates her. Philip Gourevitch. I had met him in 1969, then we stayed friends. AN: Well, I broke it. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. This is before the lost sacred corpus vision, someone says Look at my author photo. 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. nature. 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 have a poem called Cherokee (2006). I dreamed about the children afterwards, you know, there were children being chased in this building. 38AN: Would you like to see the real collage? In this short poem from her 1980 book When I Was Alive, Notley describes a female god who creates, instead of light, lightbulbs & liquefaction, who teaches us affection for paintings and films and the limitations of words. I think its just all out there. Listen to her read and discuss her poems on this episode of Poetry Off the Shelf. It always felt to me like I was enacting ideas that visual artists had normally, that I was figuring it out. The others were like me, though Hispanic and black. The books were published under the imprint Unimproved Editions and Notley made cover art for the majority of the titles. Notley wrote extensively of her childhood and early life in her book Tell Me Again (Am here, 1982). [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. Early on, I understood that was something you could enjoy doing out of folk music. Twitter, Then he writes poetry in the variable foot which is a huge influence on my later work. Its filthy; I dont remember how I got that torn princess; 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. She has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. At Night the States and Laurence B. HOLLAND. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. . Need a transcript of this episode? 27AN: I dont think thats true of her poetry though, and I dont think thats what John did exactly. 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. Nick Sturm: It's the point where, when you've made so many books, of course manuscripts are talking to you. 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,. 115DR: Also Im coming back often to that poem, In this Paradise, about the food-stamp office. Alice Notley on her life with Ted Berrigan. Eileen was in it, as was Bob Holman. New York: United Artists, 1979. Of her 1983 workshop, Notley wrote: I expect my workshop will be similar to past Alice Notley workshops: same old format, assignments, xeroxes, forms, occasions, geometries, kinds of poems, speculations on and practice of the lofty and the silly. Which is something that John Ashbery would probably have agreed with, in a way. I always liked his paintings. Theres a poem where you talk about meeting Teds mother. I could have a conversation about Royal Trux: a very chaotic indie group, sometimes awful, sometimes amazingly brilliant. 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. Poems and prose about conflict, armed conflict, and poetry's role in shaping perceptions and outcomes of war. 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. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? Songs for the Unborn Second Baby. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. I the People AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. 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). DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. 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. AroarA. I can do that with my speaking voice in poems. NOTLEY, Alice. And Virgil: (2011): she is a female character who suffers a kind of erasure, despite being the great queen of Carthage. 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. Notleys latest collection, For the Ride, a sprawling book-length poem, continues her trajectory into the unknown: anything happens here / in the magic of ones chaos. With its mess of divergent voices, picture-poems, and eccentric locutions, the result is baffling, beautiful, and always fascinatingly Notley. The words at night the states serve as a refrain that marks the beginning of each stanza. White Phosphorus Poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore womens history and womens rights. Revue dtudes amricaines. She has lived most extensively in Needles, in New York, and since 1992 in Paris, France. DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. 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. NOTLEY, Alice. 29AN: He has complete syntactical thoughts, then he interrupts things at the conjunction. The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. 89DR: Right, thats a strong, colonizing streak in Western culture. So, there were people from all different professions at the table, a few Americans and some artistic peoplebut not that many. Theres no garbage. What if youre not sure what kind of person you are? The poetry community in Bolinas was particularly strong at the time, withJoanne Kyger,Philip Whalen,Bill Berkson,Robert Creeley, and Bobbie Louise Hawkins all among its residents. In For the Ride (Penguin 2020), Notley presents words as precarious cargo being salvaged from a global catastrophe and disintegrating reality. Ad Choices. You and Ted published it in your review, AN: I started to be quite influenced by him at that point, and I think I influenced him in the writing of the book. I also have a vinyl record, its like one of those jazz albums. Its small and a bit fragile. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Robert Haas, Guest Editor. 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. Your brain becomes taffy. Frank had a characteristic, manly idea of existing in the world despite what you might call his femininity, and I think that Ted understood it as something like being a Jimmy Cagney or something from the movies: Ted knew how to take that stance. I havent changed much since I first began writing: Light as airmail paper away she flew. NOTLEY, Alice. Written after the death of her brother, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from PTSD, Notleys searing elegy challenges the Western poetic tradition by drawing attention to its complicity in war making and empire building. The poet Heather Christles book, which is built of fragments of varying lengths, examines the science, sociology, and history of weeping. 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. New York: Penguin, 2001. 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 Hopi Corn Maidens Dance, and she taught me the song later, and my father taught me the chant for the Apache Dog Dance. (2005), and I have essays in it about her and Joanne Kyger, Ted Berrigan, Lorenzo Thomas, Frank OHara, and some others. Notley and Berrigan joined an already active community of Chicago poets, including Paul Carroll, Paul Hoover, and Maxine Chernoff. [3] Notley and Berrigan spent the several months between Long Island and Chicago in Bolinas, California, which is where Berrigan officially printed 165 Meeting House Lane. 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. These places are continuously operating as presences in your poetry, particularly the Needles of your youth, in California, the Lower Manhattan in the heyday of New York School Poetry, and the Paris of today. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. Ill read a part of it: Alice Notley, Where Leftover Misery Goes in. AN: Virgil was just this poet and he had to contend with Augustus Caesar. I thought that that printing added something, though: I enjoyed turning the book to read the poem. Notleys work seems to suggest that correctives to the old narratives are possible but also that real fixity is always out of reach. 108AN: Yes, towards the end of number fourteen, the last one. NOTLEY, Alice. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. 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. 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. DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. Notley. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. NOTLEY, Alice. 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. Theres no garbage. In that sad, beautiful book, theres so much irony, whereas some literary critics take everything at face value. The Art of Poetry: John Ashbery. Ed. [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. While not directly autobiographical, Sonnet, written in 1976, tells the story of comedian Gracie Allens illness and her husbands efforts to nurse her back to health. Ted had left Sandy; I was living in sin with Ted, which Peggy didnt seem to mind at all, as she liked me a lot. 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. These ideas are all very tangible, yet somewhat unconnected when conversed about and referred to. However, I dont know what I was listening to when I was beginning to write The Descent of Alette. 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. . I went down there is simple, but it is rich. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. I was one of his friends in Paris. Its refreshing to read poetry so dedicated to its own ends, even if they are occasionally inscrutable. 120DR: He was deeply inspired by the Hindu tradition, which was brave and opens the culture up. AN: No, never: when I address enemies, I am not carrying them on my shoulder; Im being intensely annoyed by them. 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. BAYM, Nina. Everyone who went there was either black or Hispanic. 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. Its not around me much now. Chicago European Edition #3. Doug [Oliver] had died, and it was 2001. AN: I read it when I was about twenty-three, in English. Notleys recent work includes From the Beginning (2004), Alma, or the Dead Women (2006), Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, In the Pines (2007), Culture of One (2011), Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Benediction (2015), and Certain Magical Acts (2016). Indeed, French poetry has had some weird times, where it got so abstract. 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. You and Ted published it in your review, Chicago (1974). However, when you dream you get more, particularly images, which I dont have enough of right now. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. AN: Would you like to see the real collage? 77For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. 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. 31AN: This poem was later published in Reason and Other Women (2010). For Frank OHara's Birthday. Also, just before leaving New York, she realized the ambition of writing a feminist epic in a book-length poem, The Descent of Alette (1996). In The Pines. Alice Notley has become one of Americas greatest living poets. Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice is an imagined rebuke by Beat writer Jack Kerouac of his biographers, many of whom focused on the lurid and sensational details of his personal life rather than the importance and impact of his writing. It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. was influenced by my autobiographical book that almost won the Pulitzer Prize. 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. I wrote a poem about it in. 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. 53DR: The disturbing political and historical moment we are experiencing could disrupt many collective dreams. [1] She received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in spring 1967 and left New York City that fall for the fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Aeneas founded a city, Rome. These places are continuously operating as presences in your poetry, particularly the Needles of your youth, in California, the Lower Manhattan in the heyday of New York School Poetry, and the Paris of today. Alice. In reframing and re-empowing Dido and Medea, she is writing a meditation on destruction. This guy is doing vinyl records of poets and hes done a series including one of me and one of Eileen [Myles]. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? Est construido en ambas orillas del ro Nore. In this midcareer lyric, the poet plays with the idea of citizenship in the everyday, exploring how, as poets and pedestrians, family members and lovers, people always exist somewhere betweenIandwe. Did it influence you? Dismiss. 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. 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. Culture of One sees Notley returning to the desert of her childhood to tell the story of one of its residents. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writers Workshop, University of Iowa. 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. I was her teacher, though Im not much older than she is, about four years older. AN: Like dolmensyes, something like that. NOTLEY, Alice. My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. Did it influence you? 57DR: Now I heard you say that the cadences for The Descent of Alette emerged from Monteverdi. 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). A close relationship with the poet Anselm Hollo, who was teaching at the program at that time, led to Notley leaving Iowa City for Morocco in 1968. I was wondering if your poems that address completely despicable people might be a case of carrying the enemy on the shoulder. ; 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. Produced by Curtis Fox. Scenes, tones, and pronouns shift without warning. In the serious, reflective poem, Your Dailiness (1971), you mention finally understanding Willem de Koonings painting. I would like some help. Whereupon, she just totally melted. 47DR: Its incredible because, I just re-read Nadja recently. damn whether they eat or not. Instead of second-guessing their style, we could talk about the way they handled the tasks. 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. For some 45 years, she has striven against the forces that stifle idiosyncrasy. At that point Alice Notley was finding New York less amenable and was keen to go somewhere else. 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. In fact, the strong memories of starting points, including the vegetation, you just evoked link you to your New York School entourage. Theres a poem where you talk about meeting Teds mother. Mystery of Small Houses. Courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. Their apartment at 101 St. Mark's Place again became a hub for both young writers and Berrigan and Notley's contemporaries. November 2014. New York: Chax Press, 2010. 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