Certain magical acts / Alice Notley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Notley, Alice, 1945- author.

Series:

Penguin poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

147 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2016]

Summary:

"An important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 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 work sets out to explore the world and its difficulties, from the recent economic crisis and climate change to the sorrow of violence and the disappointment of democracy or any other political system. Notley channels these themes in a mix of several longer poems - one is a kind of spy novella in which the author is discovered to be a secret agent of the dead, another an extended message found in a manuscript in a future defunct world - with some unique shorter pieces. Varying formally between long expansive lines, a mysteriously cohering sequence in meters reminiscent of ancient Latin, a narration with a postmodern broken surface, and the occasional sonnet, these are grand poems, inviting the reader to be grand enough to survive, spiritually, a planet's ruin"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"I Couldn't Sleep in My Dream" 3

Two of Swords 6

Nine and Ten 7

I Think Fiercely 8

I Went Down There 11

We Thought We Were Our Own 25

Voices 29

Found Work (lost lace) 69

If the Real Is So Real Why Isn't It 94

The Wind 99

Blinding, the White Horse in Front of Me 100

Private Life: The Names 113

The Story 145.

ISBN:

9780143108160

0143108166

OCLC:

925397881