Mysteries of Small Houses
Poems
$48.15
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 June 1998
Summary
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Winner of the Los Angeles Time Book Prize
An autobiographical collection of poetry by Alice Notley, “One of America’s greatest poets”
Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the California desert spring to life through evocative renderings of the Ame…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140588965 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140588965 |
| Author: | Alice Notley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1998 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 152mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
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Critics Review
“Casual, forthright and perceptive, it is a culminating effort. Notley, as is her style, rarely shies away from unabashed, almost Whitmanesque generalizations, and here her bravery pays off. Again and again, she asks herself what poetry in America is and was…” – Publishers Weekly
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, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Disobedience, 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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