Disobedience

Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, Mysteries of Small Houses, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Structured as a long series of interconnected poems in which one of the main elements is an ongoing dialogue with a seedy detective, Disobedience sets out to explore the visible as well as the unconscious. These poems, composed during a fifteen-month period, also deal with being a woman in France, with turning fifty, and with being a poet, and thus seemingly despised or at least ignored.

Author: Alice Notley
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/2001
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.99w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9780141002293
ISBN10: 0141002298
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Literary Collections | Women Authors

About the Author
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.