Product Description: Poetry. Women's Studies. More than twenty years in the writing, BENEDICTION is Alice Notley's single long poem of mourning, desire, loss, and vitality.

Product Description: Poetry. Drama. Afterword by Frances Richard. MANHATTAN LUCK includes four previously uncollected texts from the 70s and early 80s: the poems "For My Sister: Meeting in Air," and "Manhattan Luck," the short collection of poems "Jimmy Valentine," and the play "Anne's White Glove...read more

Product Description: Left dead after our cultures were broken by triumphant enemies, our stories changed to suit others. We now change them again to suit ourselves. Songs and Stories of the Ghouls purports to give power to the dead—voices to the victims of genocide both ancient and contemporary—and presence to women...read more

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.

Product Description: Alice Notley's Alma, or The Dead Women is a cross-genre book, poem/novel, poetry/prose, comedy/tragedy, that submits to no discipline but its own and was conceived by the author in a state of personal, national and planetary grief...read more

Coming After gathers critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience.Notley explores the work of second-generation New York School poets and their allies: Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Ron Padgett, Lorenzo Thomas, and others. These essays and reviews are among the first to deal with a generation of poets notorious for their refusal to criticize and theorize, assuming the stance that "only the poems matter." The essays are characterized by Notley's strong, compelling voice, which transfixes the reader even in the midst of professional detail. Coming After revives the possibility of the readable book of criticism.

Product Description: Poetry. A 30-page limited edition chapbook with cover by Will Yackulic.

Product Description: "A poet of modern Paris has to write about more than the river mists ..." Douglas Oliver states in his preface. "More than mid-way through my life I have begun writing Arrondissements, a series of books or long sequences in poetry and prose, designed to reflect the world at large through the prism of Paris...read more

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A collection of poems addresses the topics of the political turbulence, the American character, womanhood, love, and aging (view table of contents)

A poetic collage explores the realities of war veterans, strangers, the mentally disturbed, and the homeless as witnesses to the passing of the world

Product Description: Poetry. "Entertaining, moving, Notley's work engages ever-deepening areas of division and isolation while settling for nothing less than a restoration of wholeness"--Joseph Donahue.

Product Description: 23 pp. printed mimeo; saddle stapled in paper wrappers designed by Guy Berard. Prose and verse response to the Homeric epic which contains the poem"White Phosphorous."

Product Description: Poems from a master of the New York School.

Product Description: Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon Peich 57 . Designed and printed by Allen Kornblum. Table of contents. Errata. 53+ 1 pages. cloth, label on front cover. 4to..