Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005 (Wesleyan Poetry) - Hardcover

Notley, Alice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819567728 ISBN 13: 9780819567727

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres, the postmodern series, the newly invented epic, political observation and invective, and the poem as novel. This chronological selection of her most notable work offers a delineation of her life and creative development. Formerly associated with the second generation of the New York School, Notley has become a poet with a completely distinctive voice. "Grave of Light" is a progression of changing forms and styles - an extensive panorama held together explicitly by the shape of the poet's times. Notley's poems challenge their subjects head-on, suffusing language with radiant truth.

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About the Author

Alice Notley has published more than twenty collections of poems. Her Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for poetry, and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Paris.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0819567728
• ISBN 13: 9780819567727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384