Culture of One (Penguin Poets) Paperback - 2011
by Notley, Alice
- New
- Paperback
A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.
Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one." The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. Culture of One offers further proof of how Notley "has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be" (The Boston Review).
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Details
- Title Culture of One (Penguin Poets)
- Author Notley, Alice
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, East Rutherford, NJ, U.S.A.
- Date 2011-03-29
- Bookseller's Inventory # 45736
- ISBN 9780143118930 / 0143118935
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.09 x 0.47 in (22.76 x 15.47 x 1.19 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Prose poems, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010050272
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
Summary
Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one." The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. Culture of One offers further proof of how Notley "has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be" (The Boston Review).
From the publisher
Media reviews
Citations
- Library Journal, 04/01/2011, Page 92
- Publishers Weekly, 04/18/2011, Page 0
