Culture of One
$45.51
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2011
Summary
A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.
Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley’s adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley’s hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex—calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage—from materials left at the dump. She is a “culture of one.”
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143118930 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143118935 |
| Author: | Alice Notley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 201g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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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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