If this poem demonstrates her abiding interest in metaphysics, it also speaks to the immediate political realities of being a woman writer. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. I dreamed about the children afterwards, you know, there were children being chased in this building. NOTLEY, Alice. Poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore womens history and womens rights. (1986). In this emblematic early piece, the text spills across the page. which went: If I was the King of the World, Id throw away all the cars, thus broadcasting the idea. Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. DR: Was the teaching of poetry workshops something that connected you to Kenneth Koch? That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. I also have a vinyl record, its like one of those jazz albums. You know that quotation from a Paris Review interview (1983) that everything is this underground river and you can just draw from it any time you want to. Notleys struggle for solace and understanding is all the more moving for its contradictions, confusions, and stutters. Theres no garbage. 48AN: I read it when I was about twenty-three, in English. to get there. 1Alice Notley is a major American poet of our day, who has been living in Paris since the early 1990s, when she moved there with her second husband, the English poet, Doug Oliver (1937-2000), because Paris was where his professorial career was taking him. First, the way the fan that tapers at the top disorients the view, because the fan is supposed to open up, not reduce. That is just the beginning. NOTLEY, Alice. Entitled The Speak Angel Series, her latest collection of new material is forthcoming from . 84AN: You dont have to breathe between them. The Art of Poetry No. AN: Well possiblyI take in a lot of things that I dont know about, or that I dont remember. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, and Sycamore Review. My parents were from Arizona. AN: I was there. Aeneas founded a city, Rome. From this anarchic swirl, brilliant language emerges: Color sizzles my cells, a subversive moon appears, and a moment of playing the dulcimer / in a lemon grove startles. New York: Unimproved, 1986. New Addresses. Like the Hollywood marriage in this poem, Notley and Berrigans creative partnership was loving, mutually enriching, and, as she shows us here, a bit magical. 118AN: It was definitely weird to get food stamps. I never understand what to do or how to do it, I understand that I My collages actually reflect the situation of overabundance. KOCH, Kenneth. NOTLEY, Alice. Eileen was twelve. Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth edition, vol.2. Your Dailiness. 165 Meeting House Lane. Mixed media collage, 8.5 x 9.75 in. ButI forget. Alice Notley: Im from the desert which I found intensely attractive as nature, and its my nature reallyI havent been back in six years but I love. The whole point of the. Chicago European Edition #3. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. In 1986, Notley led a workshop where participants were required to write an entire book during the course of their meetings. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa. It seemed that people like Joe Brainard were doing important, high-art collages and we could follow along without any pretention to be creating masterpieces. You know Frank was this little gay guy and Ted was this big, butch, working-class guy from Rhode Island; they were both from New England so there may have been something that he caught off of Franks voice as a vibration, or of Franks way of behaving in the world (I never met him; Ted once gave me permission to call him Frank). The Circus (1971). Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Sonnet He was my political education really. DR: He was deeply inspired by the Hindu tradition, which was brave and opens the culture up. Notley remained fairly prolific during this era, writing and publishing several full-length collections. STEIN, Gertrude. Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Alice Notley: It's an artifact and it's kind of torn up, called "lost lace." It's supposed to look like it . New Addresses was influenced by my autobiographical book that almost won the Pulitzer Prize, Mystery of Small Houses (1998), getting him to dredge up his past, bravely. I didnt know any French; I had no French when I came here, basically, in my late forties. 58AN: I actually listened to Monteverdi to get the cadences that were before The Descent of Alette: particularly in White Phosphorus (1988) and at the end of Beginning with a Stain (1987). because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. Lipstick, Queens, 1947 these were things he just wrote down on this list of possible titles. The Man in the Long Black Coat, (1989) by Bob Dylan influenced the sound of the first two parts, which I wrote last. 102I re-read Wars I have Seen (1945) a couple of years ago because she was being bashed in the States again: they were underlining her Vichy connections in order to make her into a kind of villain, without any regard for how difficult it must have been: a lesbian living with another lesbian, in her sixties, in a country that wasnt her own country, Jewish, thus a prime candidate for the camps. 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. DR: Like Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman reading at Saint Marks church their collaborative poem, Memorial Day (May 6, 1971), that episode of Public Access Television. Alls well.. Which is something that John Ashbery would probably have agreed with, in a way. 116AN: I was there. His reviews and interviews have appeared in Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, and Pleiades. 108AN: Yes, towards the end of number fourteen, the last one. She received a BA from Barnard College in 1967, and an MFA from the the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. I grew up among Native Americans. Its probably Notleys best-known work, perhaps because its one of the easiest to follow. I would give a task often based on traditional forms, or I would get an idea for a subject; and sometimes I used Kenneths books, because he was writing all those books then about teaching in nursing homes and to groups of small children. ASHBERY, John. She has long written in narrative and epic and genre-bending modes to discover new ways to explore the nature of the self and the social and cultural importance of disobedience. 124I also have a vinyl record, its like one of those jazz albums. Notley and Berrigan were frequent instructors at Naropa University's summer writing program. Some have linked Notley's geographical move to Parissince it followed a period of intensely personal writingas also marking a creative distance between herself and her poems, though her books Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998) and Culture of One (Penguin, 2011) engage very much with personal matter. doing here? I just sat down and replied, Im a widow; Ive got two children; I know its been a year and a half since my husband died; Im trying to stay at home as much as I can and I have a part-time job (I was working for Allen Ginsberg at the time). Theyre beautiful. NOTLEY, Alice. NOTLEY, Alice. Bernadette Mayer writes through the pandemic. She has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. is to take away from her the founding of a city, and transform her into this love suicide, and to rob her of her power. [8] While in England, Notley would write her second sonnet cycle Great Interiors, Wines and Spirits of the World, which was originally published in a Notley-themed issue of the Chicago magazine Out There.[9]. My mother was always curious and interested. I always seem to be erasing and starting over, rather than picking up where I left off, even if I wind up taking up the same themes. The book took its title from the address of their home on Long Island and was published by Berrigan's C Press. 101AN: Well, thats what a lot of us got from her; Im heavily influenced by Gertrude Stein, having had two Stein periods; in the second one in the mid-1980s, I figured out a thing about repetition: that, if you repeated, you could pause long enough inside the repetition to figure out what to say next, which she was probably doing constantly. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once. Among the most powerful moments in her work are the ones marked by her teaching poetry workshops in New York and her self-publishing the book. It emasculates her. NOTLEY, Alice. I had met him in 1969, then we stayed friends. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. 53DR: The disturbing political and historical moment we are experiencing could disrupt many collective dreams. Photographer unknown, Alice Notley teaching a workshop, Saint Marks Poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. I wrote a poem about it in Alma, or The Dead Women (2006). Alice Notley, Live in Seattle, Portland, WA: Fonograf Editions (Octopus Books), 2019. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. They would go out in the Hopi pueblo and get whatever snakes there were around, and a quarter would be rattlers, but in Prescott, they only used bull snakes. 13AN: He had no trust in his own ability to write things out, while he had faith in his ability to find things. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. My collages actually reflect the situation of overabundance. And they participated, when they lived in Prescott, AZ, in an organization which did Native American Dances every year, called The Smoki, which my father was in, and which had been instituted by the businessmen in Prescott in the 1930s. From her early days in the male-dominated New York School, Notleys work has been persistently, fiercely feminist, and this poems matter-of-fact mythmakingthe world it describes is ourspresages her later efforts to write women into the Homeric tradition. November 2014. Death is for a moment, beauty is for all time, about World War II and people being away at the war. Its deliberate, in order to find something out. I had just been in the States. Instead of second-guessing their style, we could talk about the way they handled the tasks. Alma, or The Dead Women. NOTLEY, Alice. As in I the People, the speaker in this masterpiece questions the relationship between person and nation and between private and publicbut this time in the face of great personal loss. I think all poets do that; its also something out of the tradition of folk music. You have a poem called Cherokee (2006). 4Since then, her poetry has continued to flow and evolve. Oakland: O Books, 1995. Im closely influenced by them, and working with Apollinaire at the moment. If we compare them with painting, they work like the zips in Newmans painting. Over the course of Alice Notley's long and prolific career she's written more than 25 books since 1971 readers have assigned her any number of identities: native of the American West,. My current process is to write in the morning. AN: I dont think thats true of her poetry though, and I dont think thats what John did exactly. Alice Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. One of the lines in that particular poem is actually straight from Dylan, which I finally just say: I know no one can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell. Id been quoting from the song all the way through in the whole poem. Notleys work stands as a testament to how difficult it is to be truly individual. London: B.T. Her work is various, spontaneous, and increasingly mythological. Recent poems about pregnancy, birth, and being a mother. At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1981. 90AN: Virgil was just this poet and he had to contend with Augustus Caesar. Mayer and Notley both used their experience as mothers and wives in their work. Nina Baym. 44AN: That photo in the middle is me at age ten, I think. . damn whether they eat or not. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing Alette. Alice Notleys influence on a later generation of poets exploring the subject of motherhood is hard to overstate. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979, p. 911-1772. AN: I learned a lot from him on that level. AN: His werent poetry workshops: he taught undergraduate courses at Columbia. 54AN: Complicated as it is, I can sketch it out: basically, everything is just too dense on the planet, which has been a decision made and a byproduct of technology. In response, another woman informs: "'he . [14] Several poems from her 2007 collection In the Pines were set to music by the Canadian indie pop band AroarA for their 2014 Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2013 EP In the Pines[15] and in Fall 2014, a conference celebrating Notley's work was held at the Bay Area Public School in Oakland, California. 47DR: Its incredible because, I just re-read Nadja recently. She edited and wrote the introduction for the reissue of Ted Berrigans The Sonnets (2000), as well as editing, with her sons, The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (2005). A semicolon becomes a semi-precious garnet cluster for the way it telegraphs these audacious leaps. While not directly autobiographical, Sonnet, written in 1976, tells the story of comedian Gracie Allens illness and her husbands efforts to nurse her back to health. Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. 89DR: Right, thats a strong, colonizing streak in Western culture. She was married the British poet Douglas Oliver until his death in 2000. My mother was always curious and interested. Since I had all these poems without titles, I just randomly assigned Rons titles to the poems that ended up in For Frank OHaras Birthday (1976). Logic They wanted people to come and put the dances on, trying to help preserve them actually (there were about fifteen or twenty Indian Tribes in Arizona). The Art of Poetry: John Ashbery. Ed. Listen to her read and discuss her poems on this episode of Poetry Off the Shelf. Sometimes I have in-between projects and that is a tough situation; because, I usually dont write as well then, indeed, I never quite know what to do at those moments. AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. DR: Eileen Myles is another poet who comes from an Irish, working-class, New England background and lost her father. At that point Alice Notley was finding New York less amenable and was keen to go somewhere else. AN: No, never: when I address enemies, I am not carrying them on my shoulder; Im being intensely annoyed by them. DR: What do you think of Gertrude Stein and of the kind of permutations she does: almost like rolling things around in your mouth? I learned everything from the variable foot from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.. You know Newman makes these large, abstract works. Or, as One says, Anyones a new poem today. I just sat in here and wrote about Allen and the international aspect of his work. of Marie de France. Philip Gourevitch. All these disjunctions allow her work to be so radically personal; for example, this poem is at once a portrait of a mind in motion, a raw depiction of motherhood, a critique of patriarchal sexual politics, and a meditation on the sudden arrival of joy. The incentives to engage in selfish, destructive action are as strong as they always have been. , Saint Marks Poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. NOTLEY, Alice. The Goddess who created this passing world. New York: Unimproved Editions, 1986. With Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Notley once again takes on the challenge of creating a feminist epic. One knows ithere, not chains,posh garlands. Her mother was Polish and her father Irish. 121AN: No, never: when I address enemies, I am not carrying them on my shoulder; Im being intensely annoyed by them. There are others of course, but could you begin by speaking around those atmospheres? Notley's early work laid both formal and theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic life. 86AN: The whole book is about her, actually: she and Medea keep coming back. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. . 77For three or four years my father danced the Hopi snake dance with a live snake in his mouth. Dsamre. This evolution in her work was also spurred by a series of personal losses, including of her husband (the poet Ted Berrigan), her step-daughter, and her brother. The magazine ran for eight issues, three of which were published while Notley and Berrigan lived in England. Instagram, It emasculates her. Its a reasonable question to ask about For the Ride, which begins with a challenge to the reader: Youll have to decipher whats going on, as it happens. AN: To quote Jack Kerouac, avoid the authorities. If you have the talent you have to avoid them. The Art of Poetry No. This is typical of what happens when I make a collage. I went downstairs. And that other one was something I just picked up from the sidewalk. Peggy went to work at two jobs for ever; then there was a point where Johnny, the youngest, had to leave home, and she had a nervous breakdown, which was when I met her. Even as One goes questing, other voices appear, speak against each other, refract. Her mother was Polish and her father Irish. On Facebook, Ive written so much in my life that Ive become able to control it all; and when it feels like Im letting go, Im not. Notley's work is famously heterogeneous, but it's possible to see a gradual. They were the CDs that my son made and sent me; there are a lot of miss-hearings of Bob Dylan songs, as well as just a lot of folk songs that I already knew, in that work. This Kind of Paradise. Parts of a Wedding. . 9AN: I dont remember that poem, Syringa, but John tends to pick things out: he used to keep lists of his titles and then he would decide to write the poem of that title. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Benjamin Voigt grew up on a small farm in upstate New York. Notley is often categorized as a poet of the second generation of the New York School, along with writers such as Eileen Myles and Anne Waldman. Notley has said that her decision to place the refrain at the beginning of the stanza rather than the end is what allowed her to continue writing the poem. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. He spent two years in India, which changed everything about him. Through polyvocal poems, vast epic sequences, and world-building vision, Alice Notley 's work for decades has broken through to new possibilities of genre, lyric, contact, and time. After the war, that tradition was exhausted. His zips are like obelisks; theyre like sculptures inside the paintings. In addition to collections of poetry, Notley has published the autobiography Tell Me Again (1982), the play Annes White Glove (1985), and a book of essays on poets and poetry, Coming After (2005). Early on, I understood that was something you could enjoy doing out of folk music. 3Alice Notleys poetry has evolved through many phases and experiments, as her output continues to be strong, and is increasingly studied academically. focusing on the foot; and hes probably also aware of the foot when hes doing the short stanzas. Ive never thought of her as a poet: sometimes I think she doesnt know anything about poetry at all. In 1972, Notley married Berrigan and the two moved to Chicago where Berrigan had been given Ed Dorn's newly vacated teaching position at Northeastern Illinois University. 113DR: Yes, that brings me back to what I was saying earlier about Andr Bretons Nadja who sees things before they happen next and is just carted off: the status of mediums becomes a metaphor for the status of poetry in society. In this midcareer lyric, the poet plays with the idea of citizenship in the everyday, exploring how, as poets and pedestrians, family members and lovers, people always exist somewhere betweenIandwe. Alice Notley wanders through a Paris cemetery and speaks to her dead father about her life in France, where she has lived since 1992. American Literature between the Wars, 1914-1945. Gen. Ed. When I read The Descent of Alette I am tempted to treat the quotation marks between phrases as breath-markers like on a musical score. 68DR: Your humor, in poems like The Prophet (which asks hilariously, Does a hippopotamus get the shakes?) is slightly less well known than your readiness to tackle political subjects. However, when you dream you get more, particularly images, which I dont have enough of right now. and Laurence B. HOLLAND. These poems are included in Notley's collection Early Works, edited by Nick Sturm and forthcoming from Fonograf Editions in March 2023.. Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including, most recently, Certain Magical Acts (2016), Eurynome's Sandals (2019), and For the Ride (2020). It always felt to me like I was enacting ideas that visual artists had normally, that I was figuring it out. In the serious, reflective poem, Your Dailiness (1971), you mention finally understanding Willem de Koonings painting, Excavation, in a Chicago museum. I went downstairs. . Their apartment at 101 St. Mark's Place again became a hub for both young writers and Berrigan and Notley's contemporaries. Particularly the middle one. New York: United Artists, 1979. I think I know how to do things with my voice that are entirely musical. ; but that bird was in a book; you see that phrase there marks what I was barred from: so the thing to see is that Im in jail and they wont let me into the Htel des Grands Hommes. Which is the Panthon. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writers Workshop, University of Iowa. Her children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmond Berrigan are both New York Poets of a younger generation. (1954): that book is fantastic; he caught the new line, which he refers to in one of his letters. Mystery of Small Houses. 2023 Cond Nast. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. 51My current process is to write in the morning. Also in my poem Disobedience (2001), I got the title in a dream about him. 26DR: In her Paris Review interview (2015) she says that she learned from John Ashbery never to complete a thought, which is a rich idea. El censo de 2016 dio la poblacin total de Kilkenny como 26.512. She is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry, including Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Disobedience (Penguin, 2001, winner of the Griffin Prize); and Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall New York: Penguin Poets, 2016. , Memoir/Antimemoir; Summer 2000, p. 147-151. Maggie Nelson, in her excellent book about the women of the New York School, describes Notleys later aesthetic as Fuck You the reader, fuck mainstream poetry, fuck avant-garde poetry, fuck France, fuck America, fuck daily life, fuck death, and so on.. Did it influence you? Other possible issues: goofy works, "description," dreams (the new gen), school of Susie Timmons, rejuvenation of the "found work," the "line," how to be like Elinor [Nauen] and Maggie [Dubris], how to cultivate inventiveness, strategies for dry spell, dictionaries, diaries, little plays, calligrams, tiles, left-hand margins, how to get great theories and general self-improvement. Among Notleys most famous works is At Night the States, an elegy for Berrigan written two years after his death. I am tempted to treat the quotation marks between phrases as breath-markers like on a musical score. This is before the lost sacred corpus vision, someone says Look at my author photo. Actually, when I read, , high-school students get similarly entranced. [17], Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. 73DR: Did you like doing it? AN: Probably, I wouldnt dance, but Anne might. [10] Some of Notley's most famous engagements with the poetry community while in NYC were her workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, which were attended by dozens of young poets including Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones, Steve Carey, and Susie Timmons. Read Full Biography. To come back to this one, I read it as a kind of danse macabre because theres something resembling skulls going on here with the top of the fan supports. [12] Her own book, entitled Parts of a Wedding, was published first in a small edition by Unimproved Editions then later as a section of the O Books anthology O One.[13]. The text is visually striking with quotation marks surrounding each poetic foot, intended to slow the reader down and indicate the pace at which the book is to be read. Of course, we salute their past: all the greats, Guillaume Apollinaire and Pierre Reverdy, and some well-known others. Poems for milestone birthdays and those in-between. Notley citesin parta reading by Robert Creeley as early inspiration for her writing more poetry. For death? DYLAN, Bob, The Man in the Old Black Coat.. But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. For the Ride is a difficult book, constructed largely of long, discursive lines reminiscent of a Beckett monologue, testing the selfs capacity to hold together: one is not, ones are not, separated. 88AN: Yes, and that is effectively what the Aeneid, which is certainly a splendid and beautiful poem, does. Andrew Whiteman and Ariel Engle, whove done something mesmerizing; also, my son Eddie is both a poet and an indie musician: I know about some indie people from about 2000, not so much after that. MYLES, Eileen. There was pleasure in working with that discovery. Shes made few changes to her approach to the work. Theres a poem where you talk about meeting Teds mother. However, I dont know what I was listening to when I was beginning to write The Descent of Alette. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. On Ted Berrigans exuberant and idiosyncratic prose. and Laurence B. HOLLAND. This period also marked an increase in scholarly interest in Notley's work. They ran away into abstract poetry: that makes a lot of sense to me. I assume I've learned a little more since the last time I taught, and that I've a little more to learn in the teaching. Songs for the Unborn Second Baby. 99: Eileen Myles.. But I met himI met everybodyaround 1968. The Descent of Alette is a 1992 book length poem by the American poet Alice Notley. 28DR: I think he interrupts the thought, but the thought he interrupts keeps going. , and she taught me the song later, and my father taught me the chant for the Apache Dog Dance. Her children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmond Berrigan are both New York Poets of a younger generation. 11It was a collaboration of sorts, though I generally do not collaborate; I really hate it. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). When he died in 2000, Alice Notley was sufficiently settled into Paris to remain there. Alice Notleys father doing the Hopi snake dance. AN: Yes, they were the two Irish of the set. One major joy and challenge of reading Notleys work is the wild sense of freedom her poems generate: from line to line, word to word, anything can happen. French poetry was aimless, became philosophical, though now there are some younger poets that are starting to put the concrete back in, but slowly; I discussed it with French poets a few years ago, who confirmed for me that French poetry became abstract out of trauma from World War II, the occupation, and everything, authors being too traumatized to speak concretely. In that sad, beautiful book, theres so much irony, whereas some literary critics take everything at face value. Grin, laugh unbecomingLiving at the bottom of the water mayhave been obvious all the time. DR: Anne Waldman was an important figure with the [St. Marks] poetry project. I wonder about it later, but actually it always seems like it is justified: I think the people that I mentioned in. In that sad, beautiful book, theres so much irony, whereas some literary critics take everything at face value. David Reckford, Interview of Alice Notley,Transatlantica [En ligne], 1|2019, mis en ligne le 01 juin 2020, consult le 01 mars 2023. However, when you dream you get more, particularly images, which I dont have enough of right now. 78When we moved to Needles, there had been a cry house which was a place where the Mojaves would go to cry when somebody died, and there was now this pile of boards: my mother was completely fascinated by the cry house, thus she would use that phrase; one of the first stories I wrote on route to the University of Iowas Writers Workshop for an MFA as a prose writer was about Needles, concerning a white man who goes to the cry house to cry. Can we talk a little bit about the pop culture that figures in your work? My poems are full of creosote bushes, and athel trees which are extremely ugly trees that somehow got there, who knows how, maybe by way of the Colorado River which goes right by where I grew up. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. . Marks poetry Project, c.1980, courtesy of the World, Id throw away all the,. 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