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
Episode 101: Prageeta Sharma
Episode 100: Doreen Wang
Episode 99: Douglas Kearney
Episode 98: Torrey Peters
Episode 97: Camille Dungy
Episode 96: Judy Grahn
Episode 95: Jason Schneiderman
Episode 94: Jennifer Block
Episode 93: Arielle Greenberg
Episode 92: Behind the Scenes
Episode 91: Nate Marshall
Episode 90: Makenna Goodman
Episode 89: The Ladder Out of the Hole
Episode 88: Global Roll Call, Part 3
Episode 87: Global Roll Call, Part 2
Episode 86: Global Roll Call, Part 1
Episode 85: The Craft of the Literary Interview
Episode 84: M. NourbeSe Philip
Episode 83: Darcey Steinke
Episode 82: Maggie Nelson
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