Culture of One by Alice Notley - ISBN: 9780143118930
Paperback
Desert artist finds beauty in trash, becoming a culture of one.

Culture of One

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    29 March 2011

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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
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
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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