Culture of One
Alice Notley · 2011
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<strong>A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.</strong> 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. <em>Culture of One</em> 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" (<em>The Boston Review</em>).
Book details
- Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Series
- Penguin poets
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 142
- ISBN
- 9780143118930
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