Then he writes poetry in the variable foot which is a huge influence on my later work. Particularly the middle one. 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. Did it influence you? 30DR: In your work, theres something in the interstices between thoughts thats both intriguing and active. To Annapurna or Mt. Her children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmond Berrigan are both New York Poets of a younger generation. And that other one was something I just picked up from the sidewalk. AN: Yes, they were the two Irish of the set. Like somebody live in some city. November 2014. 58AN: I actually listened to Monteverdi to get the cadences that were before The Descent of Alette: particularly in White Phosphorus (1988) and at the end of Beginning with a Stain (1987). His poems are totally him; his voice is unique; his sensibility is unique; and he was always basing it on something else; he wanted to be like Frank [OHara] intensely, but there was no way he could be like Frank. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. This is typical of what happens when I make a collage. I grew up with the Mojaves, going to school with them. New York: Knopf, 1998. I am tempted to treat the quotation marks between phrases as breath-markers like on a musical score. Or, as One says, Anyones a new poem today. Ultimately, I am expressing a desire to run into the desert and get some space, the space everybody needs around themselves and unfortunately are not getting. She received a B.A. Essex: Chicago Editions, June 1974. The Prophet. How Spring Comes. I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. 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. 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). The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 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. I was wondering if your poems that address completely despicable people might be a case of carrying the enemy on the shoulder. Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. AN: Peggy was great and, yes, Irish. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. I wonder about it later, but actually it always seems like it is justified: I think the people that I mentioned in Alma or The Dead Women deserve to be there, having their names engraved in that particular way. Its refreshing to read poetry so dedicated to its own ends, even if they are occasionally inscrutable. Alma, or The Dead Women. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. DR: Well I think of Williams as a kind of Calder mobile waiting to enter into movement. Scenes, tones, and pronouns shift without warning. Everyone who went there was either black or Hispanic. Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. The Art of Poetry: John Ashbery. Ed. 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. Then he writes poetry in the variable foot which is a huge influence on my later work. Those are the ones Im working on right now, which have to do with my poetry of the moment. I use the collages to go on without thinking with words. Eileen Myles wrote of their experience in Notley's workshops in their books Chelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Press, 2004; Ecco, 2015) and Inferno (O/R Books, 2010). 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. DR: What do you think of Gertrude Stein and of the kind of permutations she does: almost like rolling things around in your mouth? I also have a vinyl record, its like one of those jazz albums. You know Newman makes these large, abstract works. 73DR: Did you like doing it? There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. NOTLEY, Alice. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. AN: You dont have to breathe between them. ASHBERY, John. 80AN: Probably, I wouldnt dance, but Anne might. Miles Davis live at Birdland or something. Ive noticed it with my granddaughters. Better to think of the poem as what Notley calls a bricolage, with hints of medieval allegory, jokey slang, strange jags of French. She delves into a range of topics in a single poem, such as "The Prophet", she converses about toilets, different countries, and the idea of marriage, and somehow she's able to bring all of these farfetched ideas together. AN: The whole book is about her, actually: she and Medea keep coming back. AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. It seems nobody has any sense of tone of voice any more. (1976). This button displays the currently selected search type. I like that it's a manuscript and not a book. He spent two years in India, which changed everything about him. Alice Notley on her life with Ted Berrigan. After having befriended the British poet and novelist Douglas Oliver during an earlier trip to England, Notley later reconnected with him, marrying in 1988 and moving to Paris in 1992. In this Poem Talk podcast devoted to this poem, it is read as a sort of non-political political poem, bringing the personal into the public. Then I figured out how to write them, so they enter the text. Eileen was in it, as was Bob Holman. Photographer unknown, Alice Notleys father doing the Hopi snake dance, c. 1945, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. Need a transcript of this episode? There are others over there. DR: The disturbing political and historical moment we are experiencing could disrupt many. Alice Notley has become one of Americas greatest living poets. She was the only woman in her genre and one of two in the entire graduate writing department. 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? 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. He taught some writing: one writing class, and one civilization and literature class. For the Ride skirts the edge of that story-sense. Notley's work stands as a testament to how difficult it is to be truly individual. At the same moment, at Saint Marks, Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, and I taught poetry workshops. The whole point of the Aeneid is to take away from her the founding of a city, and transform her into this love suicide, and to rob her of her power. While Notley had written on motherhood prior to Songs, this book was her first to focus fully on the matter and is the first full-length book of a New York School-affiliated poet to take on the task of addressing poetry's sexism and the pressures and setbacks of motherhood in both personal and creative life. I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. 90AN: Virgil was just this poet and he had to contend with Augustus Caesar. Dismiss. I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. 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. 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. 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. It bears a dedication to James Schuyler and Anne and Fairfield Porter, who were also residing together on Long Island at the time. Education: Barnard College, New York, B.A. I had just been in the States. Revue dtudes amricaines. Est construido en ambas orillas del ro Nore. DR: Speaking of Anne Waldman somehow makes me think of the presence of Native Americans in your work. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. 29AN: He has complete syntactical thoughts, then he interrupts things at the conjunction. The designer of the cover made an extract basically, making it wrap around the book cover, which was an attractive idea. First, the way the fan that tapers at the top disorients the view, because the fan is supposed to open up, not reduce. KOCH, Kenneth. 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. What does it mean to be one of millions that comprise a nation? how to express it. At the same moment, at Saint Marks, Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, and I taught poetry workshops. 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. Alice Notley is a major American poet of our day, who has been living in Paris since the early 1990s, when she moved there with her second husband, the English poet, Doug Oliver (1937-2000), because Paris was where his professorial career was taking him. 74AN: Well, you learn a lot from teaching, at the beginning. He taught some writing: one writing class, and one civilization and literature class. Early on, I understood that was something you could enjoy doing out of folk music. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. 53DR: The disturbing political and historical moment we are experiencing could disrupt many collective dreams. Making oneself now,oh One. However, when you dream you get more, particularly images, which I dont have enough of right now. 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. Chicago: C Press, 1971. 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. 17AN: Yes, they were the two Irish of the set. I was her teacher, though Im not much older than she is, about four years older. KOCH, Kenneth. 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. 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. AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. But although it feels dashed-off, OHaras essay is more than fashionable flash. New York: Penguin Poets, 2016. 115DR: Also Im coming back often to that poem, In this Paradise, about the food-stamp office. 113DR: Yes, that brings me back to what I was saying earlier about Andr Bretons 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. Notley was born in Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. I wrote a poem about it in Alma, or The Dead Women (2006). MYLES, Eileen. Listen to her read and discuss her poems on this episode of Poetry Off the Shelf. Anne Waldman says that one thing she learned at that point was that the Hindus say carry your enemy on your shoulder. Thats a counter-intuitive idea. Recent poems about pregnancy, birth, and being a mother. His zips are like obelisks; theyre like sculptures inside the paintings. El jugador controla a Alice durante todo el juego corriendo, saltando, esquivando y atacando. At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. Nick Sturm: It's the point where, when you've made so many books, of course manuscripts are talking to you. Are its voices one or many? What if there are structural barriers that hinder your speaking freely? Among Notleys most famous works is At Night the States, an elegy for Berrigan written two years after his death. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. Ad Choices. 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). All the political problems are based in history. 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. Poetry itself can be thought of as that which comes from afar. 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. Notley also thanks Tom Clark who would go on to re-publish the sonnet cycle in his anthology All Stars. These ideas are all very tangible, yet somewhat unconnected when conversed about and referred to. Theres no garbage. When I was becoming a poet, folk music was popular; Bob Dylan was getting started; and he was that kind of magpie. 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. Which is something that John Ashbery would probably have agreed with, in a way. I dreamed about the children afterwards, you know, there were children being chased in this building. That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. Ill read a part of it: Alice Notley, Where Leftover Misery Goes in. At that point Alice Notley was finding New York less amenable and was keen to go somewhere else. Notley left Needles for New York City to attend Barnard College in 1963, desiring an escape from the isolation of her hometown. She was in my workshop. But it goes Of asphodel, that greeny flower I come my sweet to sing. Its a long line that can take in short lines, which I did in, . 61Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. 76AN: Well I grew up in the Southwest. She lives and works in Paris. I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). 65DR: Yes, the 1971 poem about writing an earlier poem of the same title, a characteristically clever poetic ploy. DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. In the serious, reflective poem, Your Dailiness (1971), you mention finally understanding Willem de Koonings painting, Excavation, in a Chicago museum. A woman whose work completely knocked me out. NOTLEY, Alice. 57, no. Perpetually strapped for cash, the two took on whatever small jobs they could to support the family. NOTLEY, Alice. There was a black woman at a desk when I went in who said, What are. [16] Over two nights, November 14 and 15, 2016, Notley read The Descent of Alette in its entirety at The Lab in San Francisco. I picked ten poems at random to see how dispersed they were based on my working theory that they had a wide geographical scope. 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. 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. My parents were from Arizona. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Her work is various, spontaneous, and increasingly mythological. Songs And Stories Of The Ghouls. Breaking Down Tracy K. Smiths Poem Solstice, Jia Tolentino on poetry as a refuge, and finding meaning in Tracy K. Smiths Solstice.. 114AN: To quote Jack Kerouac, avoid the authorities. If you have the talent you have to avoid them. Table of Contents is to take away from her the founding of a city, and transform her into this love suicide, and to rob her of her power. I was one of his friends in Paris. I made this in about 2005. From February through June 1974 in Wivenhoe, Essex, Notley wrote her book Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (United Artists, 1979). This guy is doing vinyl records of poets and hes done a series including one of me and one of Eileen [Myles]. In response, another woman informs: "'he . 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. 25AN: Yes, and she hasnt changed much. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. The first time I went there I was completely humiliated by the people working there. Here is a brief introduction to her poetry through some of the poems that appear on the Poetry Foundation website, in chronological order from her earlier books to her more recent work. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. I felt I knew what the cry house was, and had ideas about it: I knew how to use regional things. Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be our present-day Homer. In Notley's epic poem, The Descent of Alette, form takes many shapes. 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. 42AN: We were all doing them. Whats my plot? deserve to be there, having their names engraved in that particular way. DR: To pursue with craft questions: in the. The first workshop that I taught was a crucial one for that generation actually. I think its just all out there. Other possible issues: goofy works, "description," dreams (the new gen), school of Susie Timmons, rejuvenation of the "found work," the "line," how to be like Elinor [Nauen] and Maggie [Dubris], how to cultivate inventiveness, strategies for dry spell, dictionaries, diaries, little plays, calligrams, tiles, left-hand margins, how to get great theories and general self-improvement. Ive never thought of her as a poet: sometimes I think she doesnt know anything about poetry at all. 62I am furious about people calling their speech against Trump the resistance. However, I have a poem, which happened to be written before Trump was elected, in an anti-Trump-type anthology thats coming out because I figure any place I can get a poem published is an occasion to seize. I would give a task often based on traditional forms, or I would get an idea for a subject; and sometimes I used Kenneths books, because he was writing all those books then about teaching in nursing homes and to groups of small children. 82AN: 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. Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. 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. Kilkenny (irlands: Cill Chainnigh [cil xani], que significa 'iglesia de Cainnech') es una ciudad en el condado de Kilkenny, Irlanda. 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. I started noticing my dreams before I met Ted [Berrigan], but he used his dreams, and I just started doing it more after I was with him; then, after he died I did it even more. Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in Certain Magical Acts. 31AN: This poem was later published in Reason and Other Women (2010). A similar style is found in other poems from that era, including I the People. 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. The artist George Schneeman, perhaps most famous for his artworks that appeared on the covers of dozens of books of poetry, did all of the covers for the magazine. Alice Notley: That's the future. ButI forget. So, there were people from all different professions at the table, a few Americans and some artistic peoplebut not that many. NOTLEY, Alice. First, the way the fan that tapers at the top disorients the view, because the fan is supposed to open up, not reduce. 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 borrows images and inspirations from popular cultural (Muhammed Ali and Marlon Brando in 30thBirthday and comic books in The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books), as well as the more serious literary world. [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. Her search culminated in The Descent of Alette (1992), a book-length poem that tells the story of a woman questing through a sinister subway underworld. Ultimately, I am expressing a desire to run into the desert and get some space, the space everybody needs around themselves and unfortunately are not getting. Or, as Notley puts it, the trick is to Try to get new language // closer to that of thought. 39DR: It seems to be an inspired collage. I grew up among Native Americans. In reframing and re-empowing Dido and Medea, she is writing a meditation on destruction. In a lecture titled Thinking and Poetry, Notley underscores the deep difficulty of following ones own direction: I find being a poet something that must start again all the time; Im French poetry was aimless, became philosophical, though now there are some younger poets that are starting to put the concrete back in, but slowly; I discussed it with French poets a few years ago, who confirmed for me that French poetry became abstract out of trauma from World War II, the occupation, and everything, authors being too traumatized to speak concretely. 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. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be "our present-day Homer." 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. El censo de 2016 dio la poblacin total de Kilkenny como 26.512. 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. Wholeness is not the same as unity. One of her main currents of experimentation has revolved around the search for a feminine epic, one that could serve as an alternative to the male stories that have dominated the history of poetry since Homer. We know how inane the decision was that everybody would have a car, completely destroying the planet. Why poetry is necessary and sought after during crises. However, New York Poetry authorized one to draw from others, taking a bit from this one, and from that one, which I did for a long time. And its influenced by dactylic hexameter. Your Dailiness. 165 Meeting House Lane. xx. DR: Did you like doing it? I went downstairs. DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat.. For your work, from that angle, the place to start would be the collages you make, your visual art. . There was a piece of paper on my door that said: in your building there were two Jewish children who were taken to the camps; we are going to have a ceremony for the unveiling of a plaque on the rue de Chabrol. Oakland: O Books, 1995. 104AN: That was below that bed: the voices were calling to me from below the bed. Read Full Biography. 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. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. Poetry itself can be thought of as that which comes from afar. 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. That's the future, babe. 28DR: I think he interrupts the thought, but the thought he interrupts keeps going. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. At Night the States She is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Grin, laugh unbecomingLiving at the bottom of the water mayhave been obvious all the time. It also marks a shift in Notleys poetics away from the freewheeling chattiness of the New York School and toward something more visionary, historical, and grandly narrative. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). 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