A bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's greatest living poets
Alice Notley is considered by many to be among ... read full description
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Jan 26, 2010
Paula
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See my review published originally in American Book Review's Line on Line on-line reviews: http://americanbookreview.org/PDF/LineOn...
I've just reread In the Pines in conjunction with a poetry project I'm enmeshed/embroiled/mired in and discovered that I almost totally missed the importance of American song, i.e. country, folk, blues to these poems the first time I read (and reviewed) the collection (duh! as if the title, brought to my attention by Steve Harris, weren't a clue). Defin More...
I've just reread In the Pines in conjunction with a poetry project I'm enmeshed/embroiled/mired in and discovered that I almost totally missed the importance of American song, i.e. country, folk, blues to these poems the first time I read (and reviewed) the collection (duh! as if the title, brought to my attention by Steve Harris, weren't a clue). Defin More...
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Jan 17, 2008
Sarah
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The long opening poem, "In the Pines," is probably the greatest thing I've read in years. It's marvelous. It has everything. It is the Instruction Manual for the new consciousness of the poem. I recommend reading it in one sitting, and then reading it again. And then again.
Aug 14, 2009
CAConrad
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TO ANYONE WHO WOULD GIVE THIS BOOK LESS THAN 3 STARS if you die before me I promise to use your graves as a toilet for no less than 108 days! The latest issue of Rain Taxi has an abhorrent review calling Alice Notley an Hysteric Poet, making my heart heavy with the metal of anger.
This book has the courage to create a NEW TEMPLATE for the poems of grief.
Anyone who DOES NOT understand that, anyone who dismisses this, well, you bastards don't deserve poetry at all then as f More...
This book has the courage to create a NEW TEMPLATE for the poems of grief.
Anyone who DOES NOT understand that, anyone who dismisses this, well, you bastards don't deserve poetry at all then as f More...
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Jun 03, 2010
I read 1/3 of this book but had to return it to the library before I had finished it. My husband bought me a copy at a book sale a few months ago, and I've decided to pick it up again, starting from the beginning. I was loving the richness of language and imagery when I first picked it up, and so I'm looking forward to starting to read it again. I think Notley is creating truly original, breathtaking work.
Nov 08, 2007
cristiana
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"Don't destroy time because then we can't have evolution. We can't have the mind-body problem."
"I'm the new species, the girl says."
"As for the body. As you called it."
named after an old blues song from the southern appalachians, alice notley's latest book haunts. she interweaves narratives in an elusively rich language, with each "section" of the book performed in/as different forms. she names memories (sever More...
"I'm the new species, the girl says."
"As for the body. As you called it."
named after an old blues song from the southern appalachians, alice notley's latest book haunts. she interweaves narratives in an elusively rich language, with each "section" of the book performed in/as different forms. she names memories (sever More...
Feb 04, 2009
Caroline
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Spooky, disassociated, disembodied, re-embodied voices, peppered occasionally with song lyrics. A couple sections in "The Black Trailor" lost my attention, but overall I totally loved this.
Jan 28, 2009
Gary
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Best book I read all year; her reading of sections 13/14 of the title poem at the Vermont Studio Center in March 2008 was about as good as it gets. Better, actually. Never to be forgotten.
Dec 09, 2009
Cayden
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This is perhaps one of the greatest books of poetry to be published this decade.
Dec 23, 2010
Carrie
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I like how no one else could've written this and that since she could, she did.
Jan 22, 2009
Melissa
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I appreciate Notley's project as a poet, but I didn't enjoy this book at all.
May 06, 2008
I have no idea what Alice Notley is writing about. I see this book gets high marks from other readers, but it's incomprehensible to me. I'll keep it nearby and try again, but not with high-hopes. If anybody out there would like to explain this book to me, I'd be more than happy to pay attention.
Jan 10, 2008
Cherie
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Not for me--while Alice Notley is heralded for her poetry, and I appreciate how marvelously and brilliantly she works with words, she just doesn't speak to me. I admire this book with how she writes poetry in a prose-like form.
Aug 19, 2008
Renee
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Insert noir quote here from one of the sections called The Black Trailor.
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