Culture of One by Alice Notley

Culture of One

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Culture of One

Penguin Publishing Group

Culture of One

by Alice Notley

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 A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.

Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one." The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. Culture of One offers further proof of how Notley "has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be" (The Boston Review).
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN:
9780143118930
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
160
Authors:
Alice Notley
Published Date:
2011-03-29
Language:
English
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About Alice Notley

Raised in Needles, California, after a birth in Arizona, Alice Notley (1945-2025) trained at Barnard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop before becoming one of the central figures associated with the second-generation New York School. She published more than forty books, including The Descent of Alette (Penguin, 1996) and Disobedience (Penguin, 2001). Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and her honors included the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2015), the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Award. She edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California Press, 2005) and lived for decades in Paris.

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