Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. New York: Scribner Poetry, 2001, p.120-124. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1981. They ran away into abstract poetry: that makes a lot of sense to me. My book, (1992) features Robert Desnos and uses patterns from the. Left-wing Radicalism in the United States: A Foreign Creed? That is just the beginning. 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. Would you like to come? I didnt go. I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). McKinley. 115DR: Also Im coming back often to that poem, In this Paradise, about the food-stamp office. DR: There was a pop song in the 1960s by the Three Dog Night. 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. 59DR: With your interpolation of popular culture into epic poetry, I would expect you to be a household name here in France. 79DR: Where leftover misery goes Can a poem be like a dance? Ive noticed it with my granddaughters. deserve to be there, having their names engraved in that particular way. My name is ending refused Notleys persistent nonconformismone of her most difficult works is called Disobedienceinsists that further possibilities exist. 54AN: Complicated as it is, I can sketch it out: basically, everything is just too dense on the planet, which has been a decision made and a byproduct of technology. 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. Mystery of Small Houses. 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. Oakland: O Books, 1995. Everyone who went there was either black or Hispanic. In 1999, Notley was both a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Even as One goes questing, other voices appear, speak against each other, refract. staying at the Htel des Grands Hommes with his surrealist friends, who wont get into the Panthon either. I use the collages to go on without thinking with words. Aeneas founded a city, Rome. Did it influence you? Chicago: C Press, 1971. The books were published under the imprint Unimproved Editions and Notley made cover art for the majority of the titles. A passage from For the Ride (2020), by Alice Notley. I dreamed about the children afterwards, you know, there were children being chased in this building. One is making them, conscious. That particular poem is in your selected poems, in, , and it was presented upright on the page, but it was published in a review called. AN: It was definitely weird to get food stamps. In March 2021, Notley was a guest blogger forHarriet. Is that right? Now there are all these plaques in my neighborhood saying: Here 300 French school children were sent to the camps. I woke up one day. But only One is here.One is composed of words like one makes in beginning, chaotically.One makes them? NOTLEY, Alice. So, there were people from all different professions at the table, a few Americans and some artistic peoplebut not that many. [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. It so happens that there are many of those trees, syringas, in Rochester, NY, where hes from. AN: I do not expect to be well known in the universities because that context tends to be too academic, and generally French poetry is in a bad place. 77For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. Notleys work stands as a testament to how difficult it is to be truly individual. The Descent of Alette. (2006). All these disjunctions allow her work to be so radically personal; for example, this poem is at once a portrait of a mind in motion, a raw depiction of motherhood, a critique of patriarchal sexual politics, and a meditation on the sudden arrival of joy. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. What does it mean to be one of millions that comprise a nation? I just sat in here and wrote about Allen and the international aspect of his work. 16DR: Indeed, Berrigan and OHara were both Irish names. Need a transcript of this episode? And that other one was something I just picked up from the sidewalk. There was a black woman at a desk when I went in who said, What are you doing here? I just sat down and replied, Im a widow; Ive got two children; I know its been a year and a half since my husband died; Im trying to stay at home as much as I can and I have a part-time job (I was working for Allen Ginsberg at the time). 99: Eileen Myles.. I used to substitute teach for him, sometimes, at Brooklyn College. NOTLEY, Alice. You and Ted published it in your review, AN: I started to be quite influenced by him at that point, and I think I influenced him in the writing of the book. Peggy went to work at two jobs for ever; then there was a point where Johnny, the youngest, had to leave home, and she had a nervous breakdown, which was when I met her. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? There are others of course, but could you begin by speaking around those atmospheres? Theres that magical phenomenon with small children, before they get to be about four, where, if you start singing, they suddenly look at you, hooked. He would fly to Paris, find me, and we would have dinner; also, he had a group of Paris friends. I actually feel bad when I dont write, like yesterday, but I always have something going on. The incentives to engage in selfish, destructive action are as strong as they always have been. I dont know anything about French pop culture at all; Im necessarily estranged from American pop culture, but I do sometimes know whats going on in music. I can do that with my speaking voice in poems. In For the Ride (Penguin 2020), Notley presents words as precarious cargo being salvaged from a global catastrophe and disintegrating reality. She was married the British poet Douglas Oliver until his death in 2000. 85DR: Also referring to the Aeneid, you speak about Dido in Songs And Stories Of The Ghouls (2011): she is a female character who suffers a kind of erasure, despite being the great queen of Carthage. She met the poetTed Berrigan, and the couple lived in Southampton, New York (in the garage of painter Larry Rivers); Manhattan; Providence, Rhode Island; and Bolinas, California. MYLES, Eileen. New York: Penguin, 1998. If this poem demonstrates her abiding interest in metaphysics, it also speaks to the immediate political realities of being a woman writer. New York: Penguin Poets, 2016. Also in my poem Disobedience (2001), I got the title in a dream about him. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 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. NOTLEY, Alice. On Facebook, 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. Edwin Denby made his name as a dance critic, but his poetry was a pivotal influence on the writers and artists of the New York School. 7Alice Notley: Im from the desert which I found intensely attractive as nature, and its my nature reallyI havent been back in six years but I love that nature. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. 27AN: I dont think thats true of her poetry though, and I dont think thats what John did exactly. Theres that magical phenomenon with small children, before they get to be about four, where, if you start singing, they suddenly look at you, hooked. Reason and Other Women. AN: We were all doing them. 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? Notley. ASHBERY, John. 24DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. 73DR: Did you like doing it? 95For me, Williams mostly writes by the word. This Kind of Paradise. Parts of a Wedding. AN: Yes, towards the end of number fourteen, the last one. Then I figured out how to write them, so they enter the text. There was pleasure in working with that discovery. I think I know how to do things with my voice that are entirely musical. 76AN: Well I grew up in the Southwest. 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. because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. Notley began the magazine to connect with preexisting poet friends and meet new writers on both coasts while living in the midwest. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. I think all poets do that; its also something out of the tradition of folk music. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing. DR: With your interpolation of popular culture into epic poetry, I would expect you to be a household name here in France. Notley wrote extensively of her childhood and early life in her book Tell Me Again (Am here, 1982). Sonnet Batsford Ltd., 1945. Alice Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. Notley gave birth to her and Berrigan's second child, Edmund Berrigan, at Colchester Hospital in 1974. 88AN: Yes, and that is effectively what the Aeneid, which is certainly a splendid and beautiful poem, does. 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. Ill read a part of it: Alice Notley, Where Leftover Misery Goes inGrave of Light, Wesleyan University Press, 2006 (p.292-293), reproduced with permission of the author. That unusual, horizontal format was probably done to fit the long lines in. Of course, we salute their past: all the greats, Guillaume Apollinaire and Pierre Reverdy, and some well-known others. A similar style is found in other poems from that era, including I the People. Dsamre. 22DR: Like Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman reading at Saint Marks church their collaborative poem, Memorial Day (May 6, 1971), that episode of Public Access Television, June 16, 1977, where you and Eileen Myles read together must count among the great New York School moments still on record. So, there were people from all different professions at the table, a few Americans and some artistic peoplebut not that many. Why? The editors discuss Amy Newman's "Howl," Alice Notley's "This Fire," and a series of limericks by Anthony Madrid. was influenced by my autobiographical book that almost won the Pulitzer Prize. DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat.. (1979), in talking about Marianne Moore, they say: Pound writes with the phrase, Williams writes with the line, H.D writes with the image, Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein write with the word, but Marianne Moore writes with the entire stanza, and I was just wondering if there was a unit that you use? They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. of Marie de France. Notley also thanks Tom Clark who would go on to re-publish the sonnet cycle in his anthology All Stars. [citation needed]. Theyre beautiful. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama, An introduction to one ofthe most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry. Of her 1983 workshop, Notley wrote: I expect my workshop will be similar to past Alice Notley workshops: same old format, assignments, xeroxes, forms, occasions, geometries, kinds of poems, speculations on and practice of the lofty and the silly. Alice Notley, Live in Seattle, Portland, WA: Fonograf Editions (Octopus Books), 2019. Way too . Courtesy of Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim, April 2018. 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. 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. [2], After Notley's graduation, she and Berrigan spent periods of time in New York City and Buffalo. 47DR: Its incredible because, I just re-read Nadja recently. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. , Fifth edition, vol.2. Alice Notley wanders through a Paris cemetery and speaks to her dead father about her life in France, where she has lived since 1992. DR: Also Im coming back often to that poem, In this Paradise, about the food-stamp office. The conjunctions are the most mysterious places in Johns work. 111DR: To go on with my list: We are secretly holding the ghost dance, take care of the pines where we sleep, I have the Antlers she.. damn whether they eat or not. There are passing moments that neednt be dwelled upon, but if youre going to go to war against a couple of countries, I think you merit an accusation of doing just that. AN: Well, you learn a lot from teaching, at the beginning. In that sad, beautiful book, theres so much irony, whereas some literary critics take everything at face value. They measure out a skittering meter, question languages capacities in the face of violence, and remind us of its primal connection to bodies living and dead, speaking and silent. Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. , Memoir/Antimemoir; Summer 2000, p. 147-151. At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. , CA, c.1985, courtesy of the artist, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. New York: Chax Press, 2010. The Indie rock group, (2005), collects a series of sensitive essays she wrote about her own poetry and that of others from her poetic. She received a B.A. That particular poem is in your selected poems, in Grave of Light (2006), and it was presented upright on the page, but it was published in a review called Chain (2000) and in the Best American Poetry series (2001) where it was horizontal on the page. She distrusts change. After the workshop ended, Notley teamed up with students to print copies of their works on the mimeograph machine in the St. Mark's basement. Notley has said that her decision to place the refrain at the beginning of the stanza rather than the end is what allowed her to continue writing the poem. These ideas are all very tangible, yet somewhat unconnected when conversed about and referred to. In her earlier work, Notley often incorporated the speech of people around her, particularly her children (as in her masterpiece January). Through polyvocal poems, vast epic sequences, and world-building vision, Alice Notley 's work for decades has broken through to new possibilities of genre, lyric, contact, and time. The words at night the states serve as a refrain that marks the beginning of each stanza. Notley's early work laid both formal and theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic life. Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. 70DR: Was the teaching of poetry workshops something that connected you to Kenneth Koch? [6], While in Chicago, Notley started publishing her magazine Chicago, a legal-sized mimeograph publication which would continue through both her pregnancies and even her relocation to England. 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 Alette. [7], In 1974, Berrigan got a job as a visiting poet at University of Essex, so Notley and Berrigan, with their son Anselm, relocated first to London, then to Brightlingsea in Essex. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? There are passing moments that neednt be dwelled upon, but if youre going to go to war against a couple of countries, I think you merit an accusation of doing just that. I learned everything from the variable foot from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.. She is, to borrow the title from her 2011 collection, a culture of onea singular voice and the medium of many. Her work warns of the ways in which our civilization and its conventional stories have failed us, but its also a reminder that the endless resources of language remain for those who have a little nerve. Instead of second-guessing their style, we could talk about the way they handled the tasks. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. I never understand what to do or how to do it, I understand that I Its flowing world is populated by characters who seem to personify indeterminate pronouns (like a shaman named Qui) and theres a general defiance of set categories: and if one who renews refuses / gender? From February through June 1974 in Wivenhoe, Essex, Notley wrote her book Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (United Artists, 1979). All the political problems are based in history. New Addresses. NOTLEY, Alice. For the Ride skirts the edge of that story-sense. American Studies Journal, AccueilNumros1ReconnaissancesInterview of Alice Notley. Cutting as many cords / as you tie to [her], Notley leads us away from rationality to the forgotten and suppressed that makes up another part of now.. [12] Her own book, entitled Parts of a Wedding, was published first in a small edition by Unimproved Editions then later as a section of the O Books anthology O One.[13]. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. I went downstairs. 94AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. , c. 1945, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. If we compare them with painting, they work like the zips in Newmans painting. Now there are all these plaques in my neighborhood saying: Here 300 French school children were sent to the camps. I woke up one day. 20DR: Eileen Myles is another poet who comes from an Irish, working-class, New England background and lost her father. Like somebody live in some city. Better to think of the poem as what Notley calls a bricolage, with hints of medieval allegory, jokey slang, strange jags of French. Line Breaks in America: the Odds and Ends of Poetry, Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots, Conjunctions of the Literary and the Philosophical in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Writing, Creating the Child Audience: Media and the Invention of Modern American Childhood, Les mots pour le dire. The Circus (1971). NOTLEY, Alice. This period also marked an increase in scholarly interest in Notley's work. The poet reads and discusses her work. Would you like to come? I didnt go. That was written in the Food Stamp Office in 1985. Poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore womens history and womens rights. Its filthy; I dont remember how I got. , and she taught me the song later, and my father taught me the chant for the Apache Dog Dance. Indeed, you are often spoken about as an engaged poet, like your late husband, Doug Oliver. I learned everything from the variable foot from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.. 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. Her first husband, Ted Berrigan, was an equally charismatic figure among an influential group of downtown poets. The word, the line, and also the stanza. Bernadette Mayer writes through the pandemic. The magazine ran for eight issues, three of which were published while Notley and Berrigan lived in England. AN: Well I grew up in the Southwest. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. The poet and essayist talks about her newest essay collection Minor Feelings, waking Alice Notley, Al Filreis, Erica Kaufman, Joe Milutis, Zack Pieper. I knew that I was also doing something like what they used to talk about in college: the taking of two disjunctive things then the jamming of them together: that was part of our critical education at the time; in fact, John Ashbery would have had it too, probably, though he was twenty years older than I was. In addition to poetry, Notley has written a book of criticism (Coming After, University of Michigan, 2005), a play ("Anne's White Glove"performed at the Eye & Ear Theater in 1985), a biography (Tell Me Again, Am Here, 1982), and she has edited three publications, Chicago, Scarlet, and Gare du Nord, the latter two co-edited with Douglas Oliver. DR: Was the teaching of poetry workshops something that connected you to Kenneth Koch? 122DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. 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. Grin, laugh unbecomingLiving at the bottom of the water mayhave been obvious all the time. For some 45 years, she has striven against the forces that stifle idiosyncrasy. Which is something that John Ashbery would probably have agreed with, in a way. DR: Its a beautiful indictment of bureaucracies and their inhuman treatment. The circle of younger poets who spent time with Notley and Berrigan included the aforementioned members of the Yellow Press team, Barbara Barg, Rochelle Kraut, Rose Lesniak, Bob Rosenthal, Steve Levine, Simon Schuchat, Tim Milk, and several others. Dismiss. Your brain becomes taffy. Get this from a library! 101AN: Well, thats what a lot of us got from her; Im heavily influenced by Gertrude Stein, having had two Stein periods; in the second one in the mid-1980s, I figured out a thing about repetition: that, if you repeated, you could pause long enough inside the repetition to figure out what to say next, which she was probably doing constantly. DR: Its also what Andr Breton mentions, in his book. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Robert Haas, Guest Editor. They really like, DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? 57DR: Now I heard you say that the cadences for The Descent of Alette emerged from Monteverdi. Notley and Berrigan joined an already active community of Chicago poets, including Paul Carroll, Paul Hoover, and Maxine Chernoff. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. 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. Blinding the White Horse in Front of Me in Certain Magical Acts. DR: But she came already with a great talent, right, she started out extremely strong. Frank had a characteristic, manly idea of existing in the world despite what you might call his femininity, and I think that Ted understood it as something like being a Jimmy Cagney or something from the movies: Ted knew how to take that stance. This is before the lost sacred corpus vision, someone says Look at my author photo. NOTLEY, Alice. AN: I read it when I was about twenty-three, in English. AN: I dont think thats true of her poetry though, and I dont think thats what John did exactly. Are its voices one or many? But I met himI met everybodyaround 1968. Culture of One sees Notley returning to the desert of her childhood to tell the story of one of its residents. Ed. 65DR: Yes, the 1971 poem about writing an earlier poem of the same title, a characteristically clever poetic ploy. The word, the line, and also the stanza. 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. Jobs People Learning Dismiss Dismiss. Alice Notleys poetry has evolved through many phases and experiments, as her output continues to be strong, and is increasingly studied academically. 50AN: Well possiblyI take in a lot of things that I dont know about, or that I dont remember. DR: Where leftover misery goes Can a poem be like a dance? I think that is what she said, because her greatest influence was Henry James: she takes his sense of the sentence and turns it into those stanzas. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). 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. 38AN: Would you like to see the real collage? This is typical of what happens when I make a collage. The two worked on two magazines together, Gare du Nord and Scarlet, and self-published a compendium of their own books, The Scarlet Cabinet, which contained Notley's Descent of Alette. One of the lines in that particular poem is actually straight from Dylan, which I finally just say: I know no one can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell. Id been quoting from the song all the way through in the whole poem. I wrote a poem about it in Alma, or The Dead Women (2006). DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. Eileen was in it, as was Bob Holman. My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be "our present-day Homer." There are others of course, but could you begin by speaking around those atmospheres? Recent books continue to be at least somewhat character centered. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. , Portland, WA: Fonograf Editions (Octopus Books), 2019. 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. Im working on arcane things at the moment which I find hard to talk about. Among Notleys most famous works is At Night the States, an elegy for Berrigan written two years after his death. Parts of a Wedding. Essex: Chicago Editions, June 1974. Poetry itself can be thought of as that which comes from afar. She describes it as an immense act of rebellion against dominant social forces, against the fragmented forms of modern poetry, against the way a poem was supposed to look according to both past and contemporary practice. The narrator, Alette, finds herself in a feminist epic, on a subway, traveling deeper and deeper in the tunnels, into an underworld filled with caves and otherworldly characters. When we moved to Needles, there had been a cry house which was a place where the Mojaves would go to cry when somebody died, and there was now this pile of boards: my mother was completely fascinated by the cry house, thus she would use that phrase; one of the first stories I wrote on route to the University of Iowas Writers Workshop for an MFA as a prose writer was about Needles, concerning a white man who goes to the cry house to cry. Its probably Notleys best-known work, perhaps because its one of the easiest to follow. DR: You quote the powerful, assertive voice of Marianne Moore in a poem. 8DR: Such natural presences are important. I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. Over the course of her career, Alice Notley has achieved something astounding: each of her nearly 30 books is different from the last one yet unmistakably hers. There were various famous people now that were in it like Susie Timmons. where you and Eileen Myles read together must count among the great New York School moments still on record. My mother was always curious and interested. I use the collages to go on without thinking with words. New York: Unimproved, 1986. The incentives to engage in selfish, destructive action are as strong as they always have been. NOTLEY, Alice. AN: No, never: when I address enemies, I am not carrying them on my shoulder; Im being intensely annoyed by them. vol. I think its just all out there. I had met him in 1969, then we stayed friends. When I read. 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