For the Ride by Alice Notley

For the Ride

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For the Ride

Penguin Publishing Group

For the Ride

by Alice Notley

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 A major new book-length visionary poem from a writer "whose poems are among the major astonishments of contemporary poetry" (Robert Polito, the Poetry Foundation)

Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending, book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness. Her newest book, For the Ride, is another such work. The protagonist, "One," is suddenly within the glyph, whose walls project scenes One can enter, and One does so. Other beings begin to materialize, and it seems like they (and One) are all survivors of a global disaster. They board a ship to flee to another dimension; they decide what they must save on this Ark are words, and they gather together as many as are deemed fit to save. They "sail" and meanwhile begin to change the language they are speaking, before disembarking at an abandoned future city.
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN:
9780143134572
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
144
Authors:
Alice Notley
Published Date:
2020-03-03
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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