Disobedience (Penguin Poets)
A long sequence of interconnected poems in which self-observation, anger, dream diary, and urban life intersect. It explores the experience of living in Paris as a woman and as a poet through language that is sharp yet humorous.
Work Information
Rebellion becomes not just a subject but the shape of thought itself.
Alice Notley's signature long poem collection, where fragmentary episodes and introspection accumulate into the movement of a poet's mind. Its uneasy daily life and sharp humor coexist, making it challenging while still compelling to read on.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2001-10-01
- Pages
- 304 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.2 x 2 x 22.9 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780141002293
- ISBN-10
- 0141002298
- Price
- 4688 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, Mysteries of Small Houses , was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Structured as a long series of interconnected poems in which one of the main elements is an ongoing dialogue with a seedy detective, Disobedience sets out to explore the visible as well as the unconscious. These poems, composed during a fifteen-month period, also deal with being a woman in France, with turning fifty, and with being a poet, and thus seemingly despised or at least ignored.
Alice Notley (1945 -2025) was born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California. She is the author of more than forty books of poetry, including Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Disobedience (Penguin, 2001, winner of the Griffin Prize); and Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 , which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Reviews
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The honesty one expects when reading Alice Notley is broadened here to abstractions of the big world surfaces and the inner actions reacting to and with it. I'm no reviewer, just a reader -- often slow on the uptake, but if I get at just half of this impressive collection, my disobedience will take away a more centered view of artistry and dailiness.
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rec'd in good condition thanks, bobb
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It was as described. Great Condition.
Related Literary Awards
- Griffin Poetry Prize Edition 2 (2002) ・Winner