The poet reads and discusses her work. He spent two years in India, which changed everything about him. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be our present-day Homer. Notley's early work laid both formal and theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic life. As Notley writes in The Prophet (1981): One is you & all this & two & yet. The yet is where poetry begins. It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. Dismiss. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. Alice Notleys father doing the Hopi snake dance. 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. Made a halo around our syntax and ourselves as we laughed. there was a picture of a model with antlers on her head and she was in a fashion show that day on the runwayshe was wearing antlers: it was a premonitory dream. I actually feel bad when I dont write, like yesterday, but I always have something going on. Among her two newest volumes are Eurynomes Sandals (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2019) and For the Ride (Penguin Books, 2020). New York: Chax Press, 2010. The Circus (1971). DR: Was the teaching of poetry workshops something that connected you to Kenneth Koch? It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. That's the future, babe. 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. Notley wrote extensively about pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing at a time when the poetry world was often inhospitable to women. At a certain point I wrote them down every morning; sometimes I do it more than others. Eileen was in it, as was Bob Holman. As is often written in her biographical notes, "she has never tried to be anything other than a poet," and with over forty books and chapbooks and several major awards, she is one of the most prolific and lauded American poets today. Early on, I understood that was something you could enjoy doing out of folk music. . Indeed, you are often spoken about as an engaged poet, like your late husband, Doug Oliver. I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. Scenes, tones, and pronouns shift without warning. , Saint Marks Poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. Recent books continue to be at least somewhat character centered. 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. (1986). 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. 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. 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. I havent changed much since I first began writing: 10When 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. 122DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. I gave a talk on his poetry last month, in New York, which I wrote during the cold snap, when it was too cold to go out for three days. Notley was born on November 8, 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. 80AN: Probably, I wouldnt dance, but Anne might. DR: Yes, those are full of imagery: evidently, they have all kinds of signification. She was in my workshop. New York: Scarlet Editions, 1992. I always liked his paintings. Mixed media collage, 8.5 x 9.75 in. [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. My parents were from Arizona. After earning her BA from Barnard College and MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, Notley traveled extensively around the U.S. and abroad. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. NOTLEY, Alice. That particular poem is in your selected poems, in Grave of Light (2006), and it was presented upright on the page, but it was published in a review called Chain (2000) and in the Best American Poetry series (2001) where it was horizontal on the page. 77For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. DR: Its also what Andr Breton mentions, in his book. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. This is typical of what happens when I make a collage. This Kind of Paradise. Parts of a Wedding. Alice Notley is an extraordinary reader of her own work, which, in the last year, she has read in the U.S.A. (Providence, R.I., and Brooklyn, N.Y.), in the U.K. (Birmingham), and in France (The Pompidou Center, Paris). In New York, the poets you met were mostly all from somewhere else (except for a few of them like Bill Berkson and Kenward Elmslie). 103DR: 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. 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, Parts of a Wedding (1986). Its also a passionate entreaty to writers to make work thats completely their own. 57DR: Now I heard you say that the cadences for The Descent of Alette emerged from Monteverdi. You know Newman makes these large, abstract works. [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. 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). Im closely influenced by them, and working with Apollinaire at the moment. Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. 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. (1979), in talking about Marianne Moore, they say: Pound writes with the phrase, Williams writes with the line, H.D writes with the image, Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein write with the word, but Marianne Moore writes with the entire stanza, and I was just wondering if there was a unit that you use? 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. 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. They ran away into abstract poetry: that makes a lot of sense to me. Descent would grow to be Notley's most widely read and taught collection after its reprinting by Penguin in 1996. As in I the People, the speaker in this masterpiece questions the relationship between person and nation and between private and publicbut this time in the face of great personal loss. DR: I wouldnt be able to take the journey if I couldnt hear the poem.. 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. To come back to this one, I read it as a kind of danse macabre because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. 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. She received a B.A. In the Pines, Montreal: Club Roll, 2012. I use the collages to go on without thinking with words. Est construido en ambas orillas del ro Nore. 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? Alice Notley wanders through a Paris cemetery and speaks to her dead father about her life in France, where she has lived since 1992. There was pleasure in working with that discovery. 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. Ive never thought of her as a poet: sometimes I think she doesnt know anything about poetry at all. The Paris Review Interviews vol. Produced by Curtis Fox. Bernadette Mayer writes through the pandemic. But her writing exerts intense attraction. At a certain point I wrote them down every morning; sometimes I do it more than others. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. . DR: 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. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. 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[17], Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. I picked ten poems at random to see how dispersed they were based on my working theory that they had a wide geographical scope. 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. AN: Its not a dance; its a pattern of sounds: its in my voice which I think is sometimes better than singing, when I say the poems. Theres no garbage. Individual Time. Table of Contents In 1999, Notley was both a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. But her writing exerts intense attraction. For me, Williams mostly writes by the word. Alma, or The Dead Women. A similar style is found in other poems from that era, including I the People. Can we talk a little bit about the pop culture that figures in your work? She lives and works in Paris. New York: Unimproved, 1986. I grew up with the Mojaves, going to school with them. . 120DR: He was deeply inspired by the Hindu tradition, which was brave and opens the culture up. It bears a dedication to James Schuyler and Anne and Fairfield Porter, who were also residing together on Long Island at the time. Its possible Im living in the apartment of someone who was taken away to the camps. 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. Poetry itself can be thought of as that which comes from afar. He came around when something bad happened to us. interview (2015) she says that she learned from John Ashbery never to complete a thought, which is a rich idea. 27AN: I dont think thats true of her poetry though, and I dont think thats what John did exactly. which is certainly a splendid and beautiful poem, does. I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. New York: Scribner Poetry, 2001, p.120-124. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. There were various famous people now that were in it like Susie Timmons. 34AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. Its refreshing to read poetry so dedicated to its own ends, even if they are occasionally inscrutable. I thought that they were voices of dead French people, but they just came from everywhere; the voices came for that poem. Notley wrote extensively of her childhood and early life in her book Tell Me Again (Am here, 1982). AN: I was there. I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). 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. His zips are like obelisks; theyre like sculptures inside the paintings. 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. Notley remained fairly prolific during this era, writing and publishing several full-length collections. Reason and Other Women. 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After the war, that tradition was exhausted. I made this in about 2005. The book took its title from the address of their home on Long Island and was published by Berrigan's C Press. 43DR: Yes, those are full of imagery: evidently, they have all kinds of signification. Notley was born in Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. El censo de 2016 dio la poblacin total de Kilkenny como 26.512. 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. New York: Granary Books, 2006. Grave of Light. If not, boo hoo. 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. 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). AN: 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. Of course, we salute their past: all the greats, Guillaume Apollinaire and Pierre Reverdy, and some well-known others. What if there are structural barriers that hinder your speaking freely? I just sat in here and wrote about Allen and the international aspect of his work. AroarA. In addition to poetry, Notley has written a book of criticism (Coming After, University of Michigan, 2005), a play ("Anne's White Glove"performed at the Eye & Ear Theater in 1985), a biography (Tell Me Again, Am Here, 1982), and she has edited three publications, Chicago, Scarlet, and Gare du Nord, the latter two co-edited with Douglas Oliver. Was she of an Irish sort? She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. Early on, I understood that was something you could enjoy doing out of folk music. I am tempted to treat the quotation marks between phrases as breath-markers like on a musical score. [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. 75DR: Speaking of Anne Waldman somehow makes me think of the presence of Native Americans in your work. First, the way the fan that tapers at the top disorients the view, because the fan is supposed to open up, not reduce. How do we make sense of ourselves in relation to huge abstract institutions such as democracy, the state, and marriage? AN: I do not expect to be well known in the universities because that context tends to be too academic, and generally French poetry is in a bad place. Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. NOTLEY, Alice. At that point Alice Notley was finding New York less amenable and was keen to go somewhere else. My mother was always curious and interested. Her children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmond Berrigan are both New York Poets of a younger generation. You and Ted published it in your review, Chicago (1974). The Goddess who created this passing world, Said Let there be lightbulbs & liquefaction, Life spilled out onto the street, colors whirled, Toys and rose The zoo body zigzags. Notley's experimentation with poetic form, seen in her books 165 Meeting House Lane, When I Was Alive, The Descent of Alette, and Culture of One, ranges from a blurred line between genres, to a quotation-mark driven interpretation of the variable foot, to a full reinvention of the purpose and potential of strict rhythm and meter. My current process is to write in the morning. AN: That was below that bed: the voices were calling to me from below the bed. Alice Notley, Untitled, 1998. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. Alice Notley (born 8 November 1945) is an American poet. There werent a lot of cacti where I lived, but there were a lot of bushes. She has received the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for poetry, and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Indie rock group AroarA put music to her fascinating piece, In the Pines (2007). New York: New Directions, 1962. 24DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. I grew up among Native Americans. 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. Alice Notley has become one of America's greatest living poets. I just sat in here and wrote about Allen and the international aspect of his work. AN: Well, you learn a lot from teaching, at the beginning. Why? There's an unfinishedness. Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. 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. 96DR: Well I think of Williams as a kind of Calder mobile waiting to enter into movement. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 2Although she is a Parisian now, Alice Notley was also a key figure on the Lower Manhattan poetry scene particularly of the late 1970s and the 1980s. There was pleasure in working with that discovery. Alice Notley and Douglas Oliver Editors, The Scarlet Cabinet. 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 . Its probably Notleys best-known work, perhaps because its one of the easiest to follow. contact email: nicksturm00@gmail.com The range, audacity, and radical commitments of Alice Notley's poetry are unmatched in contemporary literature. Cathy Park Hong has some thoughts for you, and some thoughts on how best to share them. Miles Davis live at Birdland or something. Particularly the middle one. New York: TPR, 2009, p.174-202. 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. 4Since then, her poetry has continued to flow and evolve. The poem has been seen as offering a feminist critique of the genre of epic poetry. 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. The Descent of Alette is a 1992 book length poem by the American poet Alice Notley. Cars & the variously shod feet were born. 13AN: He had no trust in his own ability to write things out, while he had faith in his ability to find things. In 1992, Notley moved to Paris with her second husband, the British poet and novelist Douglas Oliver (19372000), whom she met while living in England in 1974. 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. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. 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). Alice Notleywas born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California. 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. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. Mayer and Notley both used their experience as mothers and wives in their work. Nadja who sees things before they happen next and is just carted off: the status of mediums becomes a metaphor for the status of poetry in society. It always felt to me like I was enacting ideas that visual artists had normally, that I was figuring it out. The designer of the cover made an extract basically, making it wrap around the book cover, which was an attractive idea. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? DR: Such natural presences are important. DR: Well I think of Williams as a kind of Calder mobile waiting to enter into movement. Notley moved frequently in her youth (e.g., San Francisco, Bolinas, London, Essex, Chicago) and eventually married the . [3] This is "THE PROPHET BY ALICE NOTLEY" by John Galvin on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 1976 saw Notley and Berrigan moving their family permanently to New York City's Lower East Side, where they'd live together until Berrigan's death in 1983. I always liked his paintings. New York: TPR. The designer of the cover made an extract basically, making it wrap around the book cover, which was an attractive idea. The poet and essayist talks about her newest essay collection Minor Feelings, waking Alice Notley, Al Filreis, Erica Kaufman, Joe Milutis, Zack Pieper. These ideas are all very tangible, yet somewhat unconnected when conversed about and referred to. NOTLEY, Alice. We know how inane the decision was that everybody would have a car, completely destroying the planet. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. Whats my plot? One knows ithere, not chains,posh garlands. 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. Coming After. . Benjamin Voigt grew up on a small farm in upstate New York. 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). AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. 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. Alice Notley wanders through a Paris cemetery and speaks to her dead father about her life in France, where she has lived since 1992. A calligram by Guillaume Apollinaire, from La Petite Auto (1918). 17AN: Yes, they were the two Irish of the set. From her early days in the male-dominated New York School, Notleys work has been persistently, fiercely feminist, and this poems matter-of-fact mythmakingthe world it describes is ourspresages her later efforts to write women into the Homeric tradition. 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. White Phosphorus They were the CDs that my son made and sent me; there are a lot of miss-hearings of Bob Dylan songs, as well as just a lot of folk songs that I already knew, in that work. The Man in the Long Black Coat, (1989) by Bob Dylan influenced the sound of the first two parts, which I wrote last. damn whether they eat or not. That unusual, horizontal format was probably done to fit the long lines in. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. When I was writing such pieces and reading them they changed a lot; but it was about trying to get how the mind works, which meant I was writing generally as fast as I could while still keeping self-control, which is why I allowed all these part-words to come in. For death? DR: I think he interrupts the thought, but the thought he interrupts keeps going. DR: Also Im coming back often to that poem, In this Paradise, about the food-stamp office. 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. AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. Jobs People Learning Dismiss Dismiss. For instance this collage that you put on the cover of. Instead, she gravitated increasingly toward archetype and mytha search for primordial language bubbling under the surface. AN: Well possiblyI take in a lot of things that I dont know about, or that I dont remember. DR: With your interpolation of popular culture into epic poetry, I would expect you to be a household name here in France. For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. 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