Grave of Light

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. This chronological selection of her most notable work offers a delineation of her life and creative development. Formerly associated with the second generation of the New York School, Notley has become a poet with a completely distinctive voice. "Grave of Light" is a progression of changing forms and styles - an extensive panorama held together explicitly by the shape of the poet's times. Notley's poems challenge their subjects head-on, suffusing language with radiant truth.

ISBN 0819567728   Pages 384 ISBN13 9780819567727 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher University Press of New England   Weight (grammes) 948 Imprint Wesleyan University Press   Published in Hanover Format Hardback   Series title Wesleyan Poetry Publication date 15 Nov 2006   Height (mm) 235 Library of Congress PS3564.O79   Width (mm) 178 DEWEY 811.54   Spine width (mm) 36 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		"2/? Saturday"		1
		Friday midnight exactly		2
		Cold poem		3
		I hope I'm not here next year		4
		From 165 meeting house lane : 1		5
		From 165 meeting house lane : 4		5
		From 165 meeting house lane : 15		6
		From 165 meeting house lane : 22		7
		Dear dark continent		8
		Incidentals in the day world		9
		Your dailiness		19
		But he says I misunderstood		24
		From songs for the unborn second baby : from I		26
		"Alice ordered me to be made"		33
		The virtue of uncreatedness		37
		Endless day		39
		30th birthday		42
		January		44
		How spring comes		52
		Little Egypt		57
		Sonnet		60
		A California girlhood		60
		Poem ("St. Mark's place caught at night in hot summer")		63
		When I was alive		64
		After Tsang Chih		65
		Today		65
		You		66
		The goddess who created this passing world		67
		Untitled		68
		"If she says that she's the goddess fortune"		68
		The world, all that live & all that occur		69
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"The inexhaustible reach and ceaseless invention of Notley's vision make Grave of Light a thrilling testament to her greatest poetic gift: an unwavering faith in poetry's power to change the real."--Brian Teare, Boston Journal

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