Descent of Alette by Alice Notley

Descent of Alette

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Descent of Alette

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Descent of Alette

by Alice Notley

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 The Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure, with rhythmic units indicated by quotations marks, Notley has created a "spoken" text, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination, mystery, and power.
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780140587647
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
160
Authors:
Alice Notley
Published Date:
1996-04-01
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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