Culture of One

Alice Notley

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Penguin USA
29 March 2011

Poetry

Series: Penguin Poets

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."" The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. Culture of One offers further proof of how Notley ""has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be"" (The Boston Review).

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."" The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. Culture of One offers further proof of how Notley ""has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be"" (The Boston Review).

By: Alice Notley
Imprint: Penguin USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 201g
ISBN: 9780143118930
ISBN 10: 0143118935
Series: Penguin Poets
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 29 March 2011
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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