where it was horizontal on the page. Notleys work stands as a testament to how difficult it is to be truly individual. The poet reads and discusses her work. Chicago European Edition #3. Notley and Berrigan joined an already active community of Chicago poets, including Paul Carroll, Paul Hoover, and Maxine Chernoff. She was married the British poet Douglas Oliver until his death in 2000. Instead, she gravitated increasingly toward archetype and mytha search for primordial language bubbling under the surface. I was one of his friends in Paris. They really like, DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? Ive never thought of her as a poet: sometimes I think she doesnt know anything about poetry at all. I was her teacher, though Im not much older than she is, about four years older. Her poems have also been compared to Gertrude Stein, as well as her contemporary Bernadette Mayer. 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. 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. 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. The Indie rock group, (2005), collects a series of sensitive essays she wrote about her own poetry and that of others from her poetic. All the political problems are based in history. ASHBERY, John. Produced by Curtis Fox. The poem has been seen as offering a feminist critique of the genre of epic poetry. 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. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. When I was a young poet, I couldnt figure out what to title anything, and I discussed this with Ted, who said: You should write to Ron Padgett and get a list of titles, which I did; he just made up all these titles for me. contact email: nicksturm00@gmail.com The range, audacity, and radical commitments of Alice Notley's poetry are unmatched in contemporary literature. Songs for the Unborn Second Baby. Need a transcript of this episode? With Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Notley once again takes on the challenge of creating a feminist epic. BAYM, Nina. 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. where you and Eileen Myles read together must count among the great New York School moments still on record. Alice Notleys influence on a later generation of poets exploring the subject of motherhood is hard to overstate. I thought that they were voices of dead French people, but they just came from everywhere; the voices came for that poem. ButI forget. In his humorous anti-manifesto, Personism, the poet Frank OHara discloses one of arts great truths: you just go on your nerve. Considering this truth, he wonders, But how can you really care if anybody gets it, or gets what it means, or if it improves them. In the search for immediacy, he writes, questions of accessibility can come to seem pointless: Improves them for what? Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. New York: American Poets Project Library of America, 2004. David Reckford: Among the physical, cultural, and intellectual environments that have formed your particular sensitivity, there seems to be several strong and contrasting places. In March 2021, Notley was a guest blogger forHarriet. I made this in about 2005. Disobedience. Disobedience. 85DR: Also referring to the Aeneid, you speak about Dido in Songs And Stories Of The Ghouls (2011): she is a female character who suffers a kind of erasure, despite being the great queen of Carthage. Young poets on the Chicago scene regularly hung out with Notley and Berrigan at their home and many followed the couple back to New York City in the late 70s. White Phosphorus AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. 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. Making oneself now,oh One. Nina Baym. When I read. DR: In your work, theres something in the interstices between thoughts thats both intriguing and active. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979, p. 911-1772. Watch Video Here. That was written in the Food Stamp Office in 1985. 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. In fact, he had a whole career as a journalist, and knew how to research, to inform his opinions, and to look at events without a preexisting opinion: thus, I learned how to do that from him, though I find that few today are so intellectually honest. I wrote a poem about it in. 41DR: He has said that he started doing collages in his twenties and continued throughout his life. 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. The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. In her essay The Poetics of Disobedience, Notley writes, I've been trying to train myself for thirty or forty years not to believe anything anyone tells me. In this apocalyptic, darkly funny, and, indeed, gutsy poem from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Notley indicts logic itselfthe so-called common sense that reduces poetry to gender and experience to the known and erases whole cities in the whirlwind of war. He taught some writing: one writing class, and one civilization and literature class. Within the text, a woman is desperate to take her daughter above ground, therefore she offers to pay the tyrant money. Among her two newest volumes are Eurynomes Sandals (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2019) and For the Ride (Penguin Books, 2020). much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). But I met himI met everybodyaround 1968. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. It seems nobody has any sense of tone of voice any more. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be our present-day Homer. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. Notley has stayed very involved in the preservation of both Berrigan and Oliver's works, having edited and written introductions for a number of their books and she continues to be a prolific and powerful force in contemporary poetry, winning the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2007 and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2015. 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. 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. 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. In these poems, as in much of Notleys work, details from daily life enter in fragments that can be both entertaining and jarringly serious. At a certain point I wrote them down every morning; sometimes I do it more than others. DR: Lets see, arrive the exactitude of pitch the tune in words alone; thats In the Pines too. deserve to be there, having their names engraved in that particular way. 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. Particularly the middle one. Chicago: C Press, 1971. 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). DR: I think for the reader those part-words can function to foreground an elsewhere. That was written in the Food Stamp Office in 1985. She received a B.A. I had it for a long time and it started to break. With long and limber lines, a clear narrative, and recognizable characters, this sad and sweet poem about Gracie Allen and George Burns demonstrates Notleys wide range. There were various famous people now that were in it like Susie Timmons. Those are the ones Im working on right now, which have to do with my poetry of the moment. 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. Alice Notley on her life with Ted Berrigan. [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. Dismiss. Notley. 75DR: Speaking of Anne Waldman somehow makes me think of the presence of Native Americans in your work. One day she took a lot of pills in a quasi-suicide attempt, when I was there, and then she just had to be rescued from this life of working a lot, not having enough, and too little company. My mother was always curious and interested. I had it for a long time and it started to break. Reason and Other Women. My current process is to write in the morning. NOTLEY, AliceNationality: American. I think its just all out there. 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. Cellophane-covered CD. DR: Thats what Ted Berrigan was about: taking things from here and there, picking them up, and making them his own. My parents were from Arizona. The book took its title from the address of their home on Long Island and was published by Berrigan's C Press. BAYM, Nina. , Wesleyan University Press, 2006 (p.292-293), reproduced with permission of the author. 18DR: The conversation has veered far from Needles, which I hope we will return to, as we evoke various social spaces that seep into the poems. . AN: Yes, they were the two Irish of the set. [14] Several poems from her 2007 collection In the Pines were set to music by the Canadian indie pop band AroarA for their 2014 Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2013 EP In the Pines[15] and in Fall 2014, a conference celebrating Notley's work was held at the Bay Area Public School in Oakland, California. My favorite is how to cure an octopus: you go fishing, get an octopus, and you beat it against a rock. November 2014. My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). 9AN: I dont remember that poem, Syringa, but John tends to pick things out: he used to keep lists of his titles and then he would decide to write the poem of that title. NOTLEY, Alice. When he died in 2000, Alice Notley was sufficiently settled into Paris to remain there. Did it influence you? Notley left Needles for New York City to attend Barnard College in 1963, desiring an escape from the isolation of her hometown. Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth edition, vol.2. What if there are structural barriers that hinder your speaking freely? As in her feminist epic The Descent of Alette, the quotation marks here both interrupt and sustain. Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. He gave everybody permission to be funny. That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. Logic sees cities destroyed as poems are stolen; a bloodied performer attempts to win over a non-existent audience in Perhaps Not for You. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. In fact, he had a whole career as a journalist, and knew how to research, to inform his opinions, and to look at events without a preexisting opinion: thus, I learned how to do that from him, though I find that few today are so intellectually honest. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. AN: When its around me, I take it in. 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. 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. I actually feel bad when I dont write, like yesterday, but I always have something going on. MYLES, Eileen. I always seem to be erasing and starting over, rather than picking up where I left off, even if I wind up taking up the same themes. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. I would like some help. Whereupon, she just totally melted. Notleys language is, as ever, mystifying: in lines fluid yet clipped, interior yet discursive, she turns the idea of independence inside out to discover its seams. 61Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. Perpetually strapped for cash, the two took on whatever small jobs they could to support the family. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? This independence is radical in a climate in which poets, searching for success, can feel pressured to build a brand, create a strong social-media presence, and write books with conceits that can be summarized in a sentence or two. 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 . 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. 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). There are others of course, but could you begin by speaking around those atmospheres? NOTLEY, Alice. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Robert Haas, Guest Editor, The Best American Poetry of 2001. During the winter of 197071, Notley and Berrigan lived on Long Island, where Notley wrote her first book, 165 Meeting House Lane (Twenty-Four Sonnets). 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. One group of studentsDarlene Pearlstein, Peter Kostakis, and Richard Friedmanstarted a small poetry press, The Yellow Press, which would go on to publish two books by Notley, one book by Berrigan, and give out a yearly Ted Berrigan Prizeoverseen in part by Notleyfor a first book (though the press would cease publishing two years in). But Notley, never one to be pinned down, has continued to push poetrys formal constraints, and this pursuit has led her far away from portraits of domestic life. Notley wrote extensively about pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing at a time when the poetry world was often inhospitable to women. Alls well.. NOTLEY, Alice. ASHBERY, John. Or, as Notley puts it, the trick is to Try to get new language // closer to that of thought. Left-wing Radicalism in the United States: A Foreign Creed? Scenes, tones, and pronouns shift without warning. This evolution in her work was also spurred by a series of personal losses, including of her husband (the poet Ted Berrigan), her step-daughter, and her brother. Ive mostly dredged it all up, and I know how to get to it without dreaming. 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). 99: Eileen Myles.. What her husband George Burns called her illogical logic. NOTLEY, Alice. 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. AN: We were all doing them. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama, An introduction to one ofthe most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry. Reading The Descent of Alette was like listening to Alice Coltrane for fourteen hours while riding the NYC subway at 3AM in the 1980s. At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. And Virgil: (2011): she is a female character who suffers a kind of erasure, despite being the great queen of Carthage. I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. If not, boo hoo. 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. Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. 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. I quoted from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (1979). She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. Kenneth Koch Selected Poems. 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. For death? It bears a dedication to James Schuyler and Anne and Fairfield Porter, who were also residing together on Long Island at the time. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once. Better to think of the poem as what Notley calls a bricolage, with hints of medieval allegory, jokey slang, strange jags of French. 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. Syringa. Houseboat Days. Request a transcript here. When I was becoming a poet, folk music was popular; Bob Dylan was getting started; and he was that kind of magpie. Perhaps the greatest OHara disciple in this sense is the poet Alice Notley, who, in the course of forty-plus years and forty-plus books, has repeatedly cited OHara as an influence while following her own unconventional path. 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. 16DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. Would you like to come? I didnt go. Produced by Curtis Fox. In addition to collections of poetry, Notley has published the autobiography Tell Me Again (1982), the play Annes White Glove (1985), and a book of essays on poets and poetry, Coming After (2005). There was one called How Green Was My Hair Brush? which was a Ron title. McKinley. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. Indeed, you are often spoken about as an engaged poet, like your late husband, Doug Oliver. How Spring Comes AN: Peggy was great and, yes, Irish. which went: If I was the King of the World, Id throw away all the cars, thus broadcasting the idea. Teds father worked for the Tip-Top Bread factory and died when he was fifty of a heart attack, after being laid off due to mechanization. DR: To pursue with craft questions: in the. Join now Sign in . was influenced by my autobiographical book that almost won the Pulitzer Prize. I had met him in 1969, then we stayed friends. 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. I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). DR: It seems to be an inspired collage. 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. New York: Random House, 1954. This guy is doing vinyl records of poets and hes done a series including one of me and one of Eileen [Myles]. I am tempted to treat the quotation marks between phrases as breath-markers like on a musical score. 38AN: Would you like to see the real collage? At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. This is probably one reason that I change form and style so much, out of a desire to find a new beginning, which is always the true beginning. New York: Penguin Poets, 2016. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing Alette. , in a Chicago museum. 13AN: He had no trust in his own ability to write things out, while he had faith in his ability to find things. El censo de 2016 dio la poblacin total de Kilkenny como 26.512. Why hurry them along? AN: I was there. There were four kids, including a couple still at home. AN: It was definitely weird to get food stamps. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. NOTLEY, Alice. I figured it out afterwards. 27AN: I dont think thats true of her poetry though, and I dont think thats what John did exactly. 55DR: There was a pop song in the 1960s by the Three Dog Night, Joy to the World, which went: If I was the King of the World, Id throw away all the cars, thus broadcasting the idea. 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. We know how inane the decision was that everybody would have a car, completely destroying the planet. Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. 31AN: This poem was later published in Reason and Other Women (2010). Alice Notley has become one of America's greatest living poets. AN: We were children then, basically. 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