What did you mean?ĪN I was thinking that they never ask me about what they personally care about in regard to it. Robert Dewhurst When we were e-mailing before this conversation, you remarked that people rarely ask you questions, really, about your poetry. What follows is barely edited from our phone call, verbatim. While Notley thinks little of pat formulas and theories-“I don’t have a poetics,” she has said, “I think that’s bullshit … poetics is an industry”-she is a great talker and extempore intellect. This award follows a significant symposium on her work, “Alette in Oakland,” convened by poets in the San Francisco Bay Area last October. I spoke with Notley ten days after she was awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime accomplishment. The biographical note in the back of her most recent book, Negativity’s Kiss (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2014), states plainly: “At this point I consider myself to be an internationalist and certainly of my own poetry school … As far as I’m concerned my books are the embodiment of everything I am and think, they are my accomplishment and identity. A central figure of the New York School’s precocious “second generation,” Notley has lived since 1992 in Paris, France, where she has cultivated an iconoclastic autonomy from any one poetic school or set of associations. She has published over thirty-five collections of poetry and prose in a career spanning four decades, which together display a bedazzling variety of forms, musics, voices, measures, ideas. To consider her work, in toto, is to court cerebral and sensory overload. Martinez’s And That’s How the Rent Gets PaidĪlice Notley is my favorite living poet. Guillaume Apollinaire’s Zone: Selected Poems, translated by Ron PadgettĪctor, Playwright, Failure, Father, Fag-Conrad Gerhardt Strikes Again. Matt Freedman and Tim Spelios’s Endless Broken Time The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, Edited by Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, & Max King Cap.Pierre Huyghe’s Rite Passage and Human Mask Skinscreen: Art and Poetry at the New Museum’s Surround Audience Triennial What do we want to know and how far are we willing to go to get it?: An epistolary novella.Outline for Novel I Will One Day Be Struck Dead While Reading
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