Notley, Alice 1975; 1984
An Homage to Frank O’Hara
Friday, November 30, 1984
with Paul Carroll
What I lose you let me, accusation
always gets one in. But I want to talk like the dead
remember that town where we went or
how do I know when I’m just a soul – not
when I’m leading?
– Alice Notely, “My Sea”
Watch a Alice Notley read her work at the University of Chicago:
Alice Notley – Poetry Reading at UChicago
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Renaissance Society and Poem Present co-presented this reading by Alice Notley on November 17, 2011.
An old woman of indeterminate race, in white hat
and scarf, no teeth staring back at me.
He sounded brittle and superior last night, do the
dead do that; Grandma had a plethora of tones of voice
compared to anyone in this anthology…
– Alice Notley, “The Anthology”
Read an interview with Alice Notely from the Boston Review:
“At the Mercy of My Poetic Voice”: An Interview with Alice Notley
Collaged fan. Image provided by Alice Notley. -Lindsay Turner Talking with Alice Notley, I was equally struck by her ferocious integrity-her insistence, for example, that we avoid discussing poetry in terms of a “project,” a term that had initially appeared in my first question for her, or her assertion of her poetry’s disobedience “against all [her] contemporaries, both avant-garde and mainstream”-and by her generosity.
