In the Pines -- Alice Notley, Paperback

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.

Author: Alice Notley
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/02/2007
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.14w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9780143112549
Age Range: 18-UP

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/17/2007 pg. 38
New York Times Book Review 10/14/2007 pg. 8
New York Times Book Review 10/21/2007 pg. 18
Library Journal 10/15/2007 pg. 71

About the Author
Alice Notley is a poet whose twenty previous titles include The Descent of Alette, Beginning with a Stain, Homer's Art, and Selected Poems. She wrote the introduction for her late first husband Ted Berrigan's Selected Poems. She lives in Paris.