Mysteries of Small Houses

Informationen zum Autor Alice Notley is a poet whose twenty previous titles include The Descent of Alette, Beginning with a Stain, Homer's Art , and Selected Poems . She wrote the introduction for her late first husband Ted Berrigan's Selected Poems . She lives in Paris. Klappentext Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the California desert spring to life through evocative renderings of the American landscape, circa 1950. Likewise, her coming of age as a poet in the turbulent sixties is evoked through the era's angry, creative energy. As she looks backward with the perspective that time and age allows, Notley ably captures the immediacy of youth's passion while offering her own dry-eyed interpretations of the events of a life lived close to the bone. Like the colorful collages she assembles from paper and other found materials, Notley erects structures of image and feeling to house the memories that swirl around her in the present.In their feverish, intelligent renderings of moments both precise and ephemeral, Notley's poems manage to mirror and transcend the times they evoke. Her profound tributes to the stages of her life and to the identities she has assumed-child, youth, lover, poet, wife, mother, friend, and widow—are remarkable for their insight and wisdom, and for the courage of their unblinking gaze. Zusammenfassung A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Winner of the Los Angeles Time Book Prize Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the California desert spring to life through evocative renderings of the American landscape, circa 1950. Likewise, her coming of age as a poet in the turbulent sixties is evoked through the era's angry, creative energy. As she looks backward with the perspective that time and age allows, Notley ably captures the immediacy of youth's passion while offering her own dry-eyed interpretations of the events of a life lived close to the bone. Like the colorful collages she assembles from paper and other found materials, Notley erects structures of image and feeling to house the memories that swirl around her in the present.In their feverish, intelligent renderings of moments both precise and ephemeral, Notley's poems manage to mirror and transcend the times they evoke. Her profound tributes to the stages of her life and to the identities she has assumed—child, youth, lover, poet, wife, mother, friend, and widow—are remarkable for their insight and wisdom, and for the courage of their unblinking gaze. Inhaltsverzeichnis mysteries of small housesWould Want to Be In My Wildlife House of Self I'm Just Rigid Enough Kiss of Fire One of the Longest Times The Future May Contain Me More Synchronous Chronology The Obnoxious Truth Requiem for the First Half of Split Experience 1965 Prophet's Job As Good as Anything "Go In and Out the Window" April Not an Inventory but a Blizzard 1970 Choosing Styles?1972 Not Child A Baby Is Born Out of a White Owl's Forehead?1972 They Cut Out Her Eye and So She Dosen't Know If It's Real Diversey Street I Must Have Called and So He Comes Colors?1973 Waveland (Back in Chicago) Collage "Bring Me a Pea Jacket and Sandwiches" The Howling Saint T-Shirt Place Myself in New York (Need One More There) The Trouble with You Girls Self ' 78 Speak 1979 A Dream The Year of the Premonitory Dream That Ted and Steve Left Me Hematite Heirloom Lives On (Maybe December 1980) C. '81 Gladly Though I Lost It a...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alice Notley
• Verlag: Penguin Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.06.1998
• EAN: 9780140588965
• ISBN: 978-0-14-058896-5
• Seiten: 160
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Serien: Penguin Poets; Penguin Poets
• Thema: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik