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.
About the AuthorAlice 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.
AwardsShort-listed for Griffin Poetry Prize - International 2002.
Book InformationISBN 9780141002293
Author Alice NotleyFormat Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Weight(grams) 340g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 18mm