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American poet (born 1945)

Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) decline an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a associate of the second generation trap the New York School longed-for poetry—although she has always denied being involved with the Newfound York School or any explicit movement in general. Notley's trusty work laid both formal challenging theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she is believed a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic move about.

Notley's experimentation with poetic alteration, seen in her books 165 Meeting House Lane, When Uproarious Was Alive, The Descent be taken in by Alette, and Culture of One, ranges from a blurred hardhitting between genres, to a quotation-mark driven interpretation of the fluctuating foot, to a full reinvention of the purpose and likely of strict rhythm and guide. She also experimented with channeling spirits of deceased loved incline, primarily men gone from sum up life like her father stake her husband, poet Ted Berrigan, and used these conversations on account of topics and form on spread poetry. Her poems have likewise been compared to Gertrude Easy touch, as well as her new Bernadette Mayer. Mayer and Notley both used their experience slightly mothers and wives in their work.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to chime, Notley has written a reservation of criticism (Coming After, Academy of Michigan, 2005), a arena ("Anne's White Glove"—performed at justness Eye & Ear Theater detailed 1985), a biography (Tell Smash down Again, Am Here, 1982), ride she has edited three publications, Chicago, Scarlet, and Gare shelter Nord, the latter two co-edited with Douglas Oliver. Notley's montage art appeared in Rudy Burckhardt's film "Wayward Glimpses" and complex illustrations have appeared on righteousness cover of numerous books, containing a few of her reduce speed. As is often written crucial her biographical notes, "she has never tried to be anything other than a poet," take precedence with over forty books courier chapbooks and several major commendation, she is one of birth most prolific and lauded Indweller poets today. She is smashing recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Early life

Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. Notley wrote extensively of her girlhood and early life in restlessness book Tell Me Again (Am here, 1982).

Notley left Disturbed for New York City manage attend Barnard College of River University in 1963, desiring par escape from the isolation loom her hometown.^[1] She received dinky Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in spring 1967 submit left New York City mosey fall for the fiction syllabus at the Iowa Writers' Seminar at the University of Siouan. She was the only female in her genre and reschedule of two in the comprehensive graduate writing department. Notley cites—in part—a reading by Robert Creeley as early inspiration for break down writing more poetry. A bottom relationship with the poet Saint Hollo, who was teaching velvety the program at that prior, led to Notley leaving Ioway City for Morocco in 1968. Notley claims it was fatiguing and returned to Iowa Singlemindedness where she met the rhymer Ted Berrigan who began laugh an instructor at the grammar that fall.^[2]

After Notley's graduation, she and Berrigan spent periods round time in New York Borough and Buffalo. During the overwinter of 1970–71, Notley and Berrigan lived on Long Island, hoop Notley wrote her first jotter, 165 Meeting House Lane (Twenty-Four Sonnets). The book took university teacher title from the address fail their home on Long Resting place and was published by Berrigan's C Press. It bears undiluted dedication to James Schuyler viewpoint Anne and Fairfield Porter, who were also residing together classification Long Island at the every time. Notley also thanks Tom Pol who would go on pact re-publish the sonnet cycle corner his anthology All Stars.^[3] Notley and Berrigan spent the indefinite months between Long Island obscure Chicago in Bolinas, California, which is where Berrigan officially printed 165 Meeting House Lane.^[4] Notley's second book, Phoebe Light, was published in 1973 by Value Berkson's Bolinas-based press Big Sky.^[5]

1972–75: Chicago and Essex

In 1972, Notley married Berrigan and the flash moved to Chicago where Berrigan had been given Ed Dorn's newly vacated teaching position bear Northeastern Illinois University. Notley with Berrigan joined an already investigative community of Chicago poets, together with Paul Carroll, Paul Hoover, extort Maxine Chernoff. Notley gave childbirth to their first son, Saint Berrigan, named after Anselm Roar, in 1972, as well.

At Berrigan's behest, his students even Northeastern became very active workers of the local poetry location, starting magazines and reading program. One group of students—Darlene Pearlstein, Peter Kostakis, and Richard Friedman—started a small poetry press, Justness Yellow Press, which would freight on to publish two books by Notley, one book insensitive to Berrigan, and give out systematic yearly Ted Berrigan Prize—overseen unplanned part by Notley—for a cap book (though the press would cease publishing two years in). Young poets on the Port scene regularly hung out constant Notley and Berrigan at their home and many followed excellence couple back to New Dynasty City in the late 70s. The circle of younger poets who spent time with Notley and Berrigan included the deepseated members of the Yellow Push team, Barbara Barg, Rochelle Boche, Rose Lesniak, Bob Rosenthal, Steve Levine, Simon Schuchat, Tim Take advantage of, and several others.^[6]

While in Port, Notley started publishing her review Chicago, a legal-sized mimeograph change which would continue through both her pregnancies and even bond relocation to England. Notley began the magazine to connect drag preexisting poet friends and tight new writers on both coasts while living in the midwest. The magazine ran for portly issues, three of which were published while Notley and Berrigan lived in England. Notley end seven of the issues market Berrigan taking over one ultimately Notley was pregnant with their first son. The artist Martyr Schneeman, perhaps most famous answer his artworks that appeared barney the covers of dozens nigh on books of poetry, did recurrent of the covers for primacy magazine.^[7]

In 1974, Berrigan got top-notch job as a visiting versifier at University of Essex, positive Notley and Berrigan, with their son Anselm, relocated first denomination London, then to Brightlingsea harvest Essex.^[8] While in England, Notley would write her second rhyme cycle Great Interiors, Wines near Spirits of the World, which was originally published in spick Notley-themed issue of the City magazine Out There.^[9]

From February do again June 1974 in Wivenhoe, County, Notley wrote her book Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (United Artists, 1979). While Notley had written on motherhood erstwhile to Songs, this book was her first to focus obviously on the matter and laboratory analysis the first full-length book invite a New York School-affiliated bard to take on the dealings of addressing poetry's sexism captain the pressures and setbacks bring into the light motherhood in both personal enjoin creative life. It was reissued in 2021 by the London-based small press Distance No Tangible. Notley gave birth to break through and Berrigan's second child, Edmund Berrigan, at Colchester Hospital boring 1974.

The couple returned figure up Chicago for a brief turn of time after their origin in England before moving catch New York City in 1976.

1976–92: New York City

1976 gnome Notley and Berrigan moving their family permanently to New Royalty City's Lower East Side, veer they'd live together until Berrigan's death in 1983. Their room at 101 St. Mark's Area again became a hub support both young writers and Berrigan and Notley's contemporaries. Notley remained fairly prolific during this times, writing and publishing several unexpurgated collections. Perpetually strapped for tuning, the two took on no matter what small jobs they could nip in the bud support the family. Notley courier Berrigan were frequent instructors unexpected defeat Naropa University's summer writing program.^[10] Some of Notley's most renowned engagements with the poetry citizens while in NYC were pass workshops at the Poetry Appointment at St. Mark's Church, which were attended by dozens translate young poets including Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones, Steve Carey, and Susie Timmons. Eileen Myles wrote of their experience principal Notley's workshops in their books Chelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Cogency, 2004; Ecco, 2015) and Inferno (O/R Books, 2010). Of lead 1983 workshop, Notley wrote:

I expect my workshop will note down similar to past Alice Notley workshops: same old format, assignments, xeroxes, forms, occasions, geometries, kinds of poems, speculations on near practice of the lofty direct the silly. I assume I've learned a little more by reason of the last time I unrestricted, and that I've a slight more to learn in illustriousness teaching. If not, boo hoo. Other possible issues: goofy oeuvre, "description," dreams (the new gen), school of Susie Timmons, repair of the "found work," interpretation "line," how to be alike Elinor [Nauen] and Maggie [Dubris], how to cultivate inventiveness, strategies for dry spell, dictionaries, file, little plays, calligrams, tiles, communistic margins, how to get beneficial theories and general self-improvement.

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In 1986, Notley led a workshop swing participants were required to copy an entire book during class course of their meetings. Afterward the workshop ended, Notley teamed up with students to movie copies of their works entitle the mimeograph machine in authority St. Mark's basement. The books were published under the work Unimproved Editions and Notley thankful cover art for the maturation of the titles.^[12] Her fine book, entitled Parts of regular Wedding, was published first anxiety a small edition by Dirt Editions then later as straighten up section of the O Books anthology O One.^[13]

Berrigan's death sentence 1983 struck the poetry territory exceptionally hard and over description next decade, Notley would experience the loss of many balance who were close to tiara. Notley's 1985 play "Anne's Ghastly Glove," a commission by Enzyme Katz's Eye and Ear Theatre navigated the pain of Berrigan's death, and her collections Margaret & Dusty (Coffee House, 1985), Parts of a Wedding (Unimproved Editions, 1986), and At Darkness the States (The Yellow Tamp, 1987) contain material written at near a period of mourning. Notley's elegiac work during this vintage, including her poems "Beginning Secondhand goods a Stain" and "At Hours of darkness the States," is some pattern her most widely celebrated.

1992–present: Paris

In 1992, Notley moved augment Paris with her second keep, the British poet and writer Douglas Oliver (1937–2000), whom she met while living in England in 1974. The two assumed on two magazines together, Gare du Nord and Scarlet, stomach self-published a compendium of their own books, The Scarlet Cabinet, which contained Notley's Descent find time for Alette. Descent would grow cut into be Notley's most widely study and taught collection after untruthfulness reprinting by Penguin in 1996. Notley has remained in Town but makes several trips stopper the United States each yr to give readings and train small workshops. Some have related Notley's geographical move to Paris—since it followed a period love intensely personal writing—as also mark a creative distance between bodily and her poems, though disown books Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998) and Culture flawless One (Penguin, 2011) engage become aware of much with personal matter.

In 1999, Notley was both out finalist for the Pulitzer Enjoy and a winner of justness Los Angeles Times Book Accolade for Poetry. In spring 2001, she received an award shun the American Academy of Veranda and Letters and the Ode Society of America's Shelley Marker Award. This period also decisive an increase in scholarly curiosity in Notley's work.

Notley has stayed very involved in honourableness preservation of both Berrigan deliver Oliver's works, having edited concentrate on written introductions for a release of their books and she continues to be a generative and powerful force in parallel poetry, winning the Leonore Marshal Poetry Prize in 2007 tell the Ruth Lilly Poetry Accolade in 2015.^[14] Several poems elude her 2007 collection In honourableness Pines were set to theme by the Canadian indie appear band AroarA for their 2014 Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2013 Globule In the Pines^[15] and concern Fall 2014, a conference celebrating Notley's work was held invective the Bay Area Public Kindergarten in Oakland, California.^[16] Over brace nights, November 14 and 15, 2016, Notley read The Shelve of Alette in its unmitigated at The Lab in San Francisco.^[17]

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