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Notley, Alice Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin Poets)
Penguin June 1, 1998 0-14-058896-5 / 9780140588965 Paperback Fine
In her latest collection, Notley takes a step back from the body of work sh e has amassed over the last three decades (The Descent of Alette; Selected Poems; etc.) to compose a kind of quasi-autobiography in verse. Casual, for thright and perceptive, it is a culminating effort. Notley, as is her style , rarely shies away from unabashed, almost Whitmanesque generalizations, an d here her bravery pays off. Again and again, she asks herself what poetry in America is and was, turning moments later to provide her own answers: ". ..'So little/ tenderness in American poetry' as/ Robert Duncan once told me who was he?/ Who was anyone? unstarred brightest equality." Contemporary p oetry's recent past shadows Notley more closely and intimately than most: h er late husband, the poet Ted Berrigan, commands a small but devoted follow ing, and many of these poems try to make sense of his work and his early de ath ("Grief's not a social invention./ Grief is visible, substantial, I've literally seen it") while retaining a sense of her own trajectory ("The Sub ject/ of this poem is not how a woman's imagination/ may be dominated by a man's"). We follow her in a loose chronology from a West Coast childhood to New York City, first as a pre-feminism college student, then as a 1970s Ea st Village poet in a scene full of humid friendships, wordsmithery and pill -taking, and through to Paris, where she lives today. Occasionally, Notley slips into the automatic writing-like phrases and personal myth-making that was the Achilles' Heel of the late New York School. But even these moments , with their rock 'n' roll bio shading, make for compelling reading.
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