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  <title><![CDATA[The Descent of Alette (Poets, Penguin)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Notley]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 15 06:53:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 28 07:09:32 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I played laser tag for the first time this week. I navigated the strobe lit rooms like a disoriented grandmother, spending half my time dazzled by the alien autopsy disco room and the other half crab walking down ramps to avoid slips and rug burns. This book was a lot like laser tag. The writing was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37784277">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu May 08 07:08:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 08 07:15:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I despise EVERYONE who has given this book LESS than 4 stars!  WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU!?  Anyway, there is no sliding scale for suffering here, THIS BOOK will HAUNT you long after you've finished reading it, unlike ANY poetry!  Alice Notley creates new archetypes, and gives new jobs to old ones. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21846757">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat May 02 10:43:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 02 10:46:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for Eleni Sikelianos' creative writing course at Naropa, Fall 2004:  A vast eye-opener.]]></body>
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    <review id="3594509">
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 26 13:37:19 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 26 13:37:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Visionary narrative. Nothing you ever read by any &quot;post-modern&quot; poet could ever prepare you for this one. Harrowing underworld narrative, filled with foreboding and darkly psychedelic wisdom. I heard Alice read from this before it was published, at the Ear Inn, and elsewhere...I found it u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3594509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7769624">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 15 17:56:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 15 17:57:53 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice Notley's thoughts on this book: &quot;I love to write long poems, to be utterly involved in a particular poem as a way of living a life.&quot; Couldn't have said it better myself. After <em>The Battlefield where the Moon Says I Love You,</em> this is by far my favorite book of poetry. Alice Notley is pure genius...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28423064">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 27 09:57:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To those who say the quotations are too distracting, annoying, hard to read, get over it and read it. Alright, this is demanding, but for me this book clarified Notley's recurring image of the owl found in many of her poems (yeah, motiff). It is an epic poem that compels other &quot;subway poems&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28423064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6610159">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 22 12:30:30 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 10 18:38:40 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the prosody, but the book itself felt tedious and at times sexist (misoandrist?). The first section was my favorite, with its vivid underground imagery. I guess she could have been a fantasy novelist. But in general I prefer Notley's lyric poetry.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="36733132">
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 02 01:33:50 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 02 01:41:26 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant biopoetic epic with deeply Dantean roots and an idiosyncratic but effective approach to prosody, this re-visionary work is an expansion of the earlier &quot;White Phosphorous,&quot; a stunning poem in its own right. ]]></body>
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    <review id="23928899">
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 07 09:45:57 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 07 09:48:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i can't believe, why did i not read this before?  i love the animal transformation, owl.  simply amazing to me, fresh, re-invigorating, is that the right word?]]></body>
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    <review id="37901698">
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 16 17:42:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The imagination creates vast worlds underground. I am not the only one who hears the voices of the sad and mute on the train.]]></body>
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    <review id="10606304">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[mysteries within/around narrative. the epic can still work in poetry.]]></body>
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    <review id="36004400">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i feel relieved. ]]></body>
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