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| Book: | Disobedience |
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| Author: | Alice Notley |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
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Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection,
Mysteries of Small Houses, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Structured as a long series of interconnected poems in which one of the main elements is an ongoing dialogue with a seedy detective,
Disobedience sets out to explore the visible as well as the unconscious. These poems, composed during a fifteen-month period, also deal with being a woman in France, with turning fifty, and with being a poet, and thus seemingly despised or at least ignored.
