Culture of One

A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.

Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one." The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. Culture of One offers further proof of how Notley "has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be" (The Boston Review).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 03/29/2011
ISBN: 9780143118930
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.09w x 0.47d

Review Citations: Library Journal 04/01/2011 pg. 92
Publishers Weekly 04/18/2011