Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems

Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new collection...
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Author: Alice Notley
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Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems by Notley, Alice

Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems

$58.13

Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems

$58.13
Author: Alice Notley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new 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 American landscape, circa 1950. Likewise, her coming of age as a poet in the turbulent sixties is evoked through the era's angry, creative energy. As she looks backward with the perspective that time and age allows, Notley ably captures the immediacy of youth's passion while offering her own dry-eyed interpretations of the events of a life lived close to the bone. Like the colorful collages she assembles from paper and other found materials, Notley erects structures of image and feeling to house the memories that swirl around her in the present.In their feverish, intelligent renderings of moments both precise and ephemeral, Notley's poems manage to mirror and transcend the times they evoke. Her profound tributes to the stages of her life and to the identities she has assumed--child, youth, lover, poet, wife, mother, friend, and widow—are remarkable for their insight and wisdom, and for the courage of their unblinking gaze.

Author: Alice Notley
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/01/1998
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.99w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780140588965
Audience: Young Adult


Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/25/1998 pg. 83
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/1998 pg. 930
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 49
Publishers Weekly 05/26/1998

About the Author
Alice Notley is a poet whose twenty previous titles include The Descent of Alette, Beginning with a Stain, Homer's Art, and Selected Poems. She wrote the introduction for her late first husband Ted Berrigan's Selected Poems. She lives in Paris.


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