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    In the Pines

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    Author Alice Notley
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    On sale Oct 02, 2007 | 144 Pages | 9780143112549
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    A bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's greatest living poets

    Alice Notley is considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets. Notley's work has always been highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics with long, expansive lines of poetry that often take the form of prose sentences, in an effort "to change writing completely." The title piece, a folksong-like lament, makes a unified tale out of many stories of many people; the middle section, "The Black Trailor," is a compilation of noir fictions and reflections; while the shorter poems of "Hemostatic" range from tough lyrics to sung dramas. Full of curative power, music, and the possibility of transformation, In the Pines is a genre- bending book from one of our most innovative writers.
    In The PinesIn The Pines

    The Black Trailor


    The Black Trailor
    Household
    Entering the Jewel
    The Old One
    In Forgetting
    God Has Money
    In the Garden
    Inside
    Immigrants
    This Plot
    Conspiracy
    Locust

    Hemostatic

    Hemostatic
    Our Violent Times
    LaDonna
    When You Could Hear Them All the Time
    The Girls
    My Lady Shadow
    Dialogue in the Glass Dimensions
    The Portion Accruing to Ears
    I Can't Speak to You
    To Preachers
    You Have No Idea
    To the Poem
    The Main Offense
    In the Circuit
    Song
    Culture Scarf
    Beneath You

    © David Barnes
    Alice Notley (1945 -2025) was born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California. She is the author of more than forty books of poetry, including Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Disobedience (Penguin, 2001, winner of the Griffin Prize); and Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. View titles by Alice Notley
    "Over the last quarter-century, Notley has crafted an increasingly important body of work that mixes unabashed lyric beauty with jerky snippets from a capacious mind."
    -Publishers Weekly

    "Notley as artist is like a hero on a fantastical journey. She descends into subterranean worlds of dream and ascends to heights of philosophical thought, but also remains rooted in the dirt of politics and the tedium of the everyday life."
    -Booklist

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    A bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's greatest living poets

    Alice Notley is considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets. Notley's work has always been highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics with long, expansive lines of poetry that often take the form of prose sentences, in an effort "to change writing completely." The title piece, a folksong-like lament, makes a unified tale out of many stories of many people; the middle section, "The Black Trailor," is a compilation of noir fictions and reflections; while the shorter poems of "Hemostatic" range from tough lyrics to sung dramas. Full of curative power, music, and the possibility of transformation, In the Pines is a genre- bending book from one of our most innovative writers.

    Table of Contents

    In The PinesIn The Pines

    The Black Trailor


    The Black Trailor
    Household
    Entering the Jewel
    The Old One
    In Forgetting
    God Has Money
    In the Garden
    Inside
    Immigrants
    This Plot
    Conspiracy
    Locust

    Hemostatic

    Hemostatic
    Our Violent Times
    LaDonna
    When You Could Hear Them All the Time
    The Girls
    My Lady Shadow
    Dialogue in the Glass Dimensions
    The Portion Accruing to Ears
    I Can't Speak to You
    To Preachers
    You Have No Idea
    To the Poem
    The Main Offense
    In the Circuit
    Song
    Culture Scarf
    Beneath You

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    © David Barnes
    Alice Notley (1945 -2025) was born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California. She is the author of more than forty books of poetry, including Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Disobedience (Penguin, 2001, winner of the Griffin Prize); and Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. View titles by Alice Notley

    Praise

    "Over the last quarter-century, Notley has crafted an increasingly important body of work that mixes unabashed lyric beauty with jerky snippets from a capacious mind."
    -Publishers Weekly

    "Notley as artist is like a hero on a fantastical journey. She descends into subterranean worlds of dream and ascends to heights of philosophical thought, but also remains rooted in the dirt of politics and the tedium of the everyday life."
    -Booklist

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