In the Pines
$44.69
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2007
Summary
A bold and strikingly original new work from one of America’s greatest living poetsAlice Notley is considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets. Notley’s work has always been highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics with long, expansive lines of poetry that often take the form of prose sentences, in an effort “to change writing completely.” The title piece, a folksong-like lament, makes a unified tale out of many stories of many people; the middle …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143112549 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143112546 |
| Author: | Alice Notley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 152mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
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Critics Review
Over the last quarter-century, Notley has crafted an increasingly important body of work that mixes unabashed lyric beauty with jerky snippets from a capacious mind.
“Over the last quarter-century, Notley has crafted an increasingly important body of work that mixes unabashed lyric beauty with jerky snippets from a capacious mind.”
-Publishers Weekly
“Notley as artist is like a hero on a fantastical journey. She descends into subterranean worlds of dream and ascends to heights of philosophical thought, but also remains rooted in the dirt of politics and the tedium of the everyday life.”
-Booklist
About The Author
Alice Notley
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.
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