Host Rachel Zucker speaks with one of her most important influences and inspirations, author of more than 40 books, poet Alice Notley. They talk about a recent reading that Notley gave with Eileen Myles and Sonia Sanchez that Zucker attended, Notley’s reading and poetic styles, and how Zucker came to Notley’s work. They also discuss writing an epic, suffering, writing about family, writing through pain, communication with the dead, how Notley represents her deceased brother, poetry as the public communication of the dead, money, poverty, survivor's benefits, working for Allen Ginsberg, the dearth of women (particularly women with children) in poetry, the shock and shame of postpartum depression, self-hypnosis, the unconscious, the tyrant, Trump, fascism, the desert, and growing up in a small town.
EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 26Books by Alice NotleyCertain Magical Acts (Penguin, 2016)
Benediction (Letter Machine Editions, 2015)
Culture of One (Penguin, 2011)
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (Wesleyan Poetry Series, 2011)
Culture of One (Penguin, 2011)
Reason and Other Women (Chax Press, 2010)
Grave of Light (Wesleyan University Press, 2008)
In the Pines (Penguin, 2007)
Alma, or The Dead Women (Granary Books, 2006)
Coming After: Essays on Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2005)
Disobedience (Penguin, 2001)
Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998)
The Descent of Alette (Penguin, 1996)
Closer to Me & Closer…(The Language of Heaven) & Desamere (O Books, 1995)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeAlice Quinn
Eileen Myles
Sonia Sanchez
Bob Creeley
Rachel Zucker’s MOTHERs (Counterpath, 2013)
Diane Wolkstein’s Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth (Harper, 1983)
A Curriculum of the Soul by Jack Clarke and Al Glover (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing)
Joanne Kyger
Samuel Noah Kramer
Kenneth Koch
Allen Ginsberg
Bob Rosenthal
Ted Berrigan
Philip Whalen
Edwin Denby
Anselm Berrigan
Eddie Berrigan
Bob Holman
Sylvia Plath
Jack Kerouac
Other Relevant LinksBob Wilson
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Episode 120: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson
Episode 119: Eugenia Leigh's Bianca (KTCO feed drop)
Episode 118: Laurel Snyder
Episode 117: Charif Shanahan & Safia Elhillo with Isaac Ginsberg Miller
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Episode 115: Moheb Soliman
Episode 114: Live & Embodied
113: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
Episode 111: The Confessional Episode
Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness
Episode 109: Joy Harjo
Episode 108: Saeed Jones
Episode 107: Eileen Myles
Episode 106: S. Yarberry with V Conaty
Episode 105: Carl Phillips
Episode 104: The Critical Response Process with Liz Lerman & John Borstel
Episode 103: Cody-Rose Clevidence with Valentine Conaty
Episode 102: Rebekah Wolkstein
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