Thirty-Odd Functions of Voice in the Poems of Alice Notley Gap Gardening

Thirty-Odd Functions of Voice in the Poems of Alice Notley Gap GardeningSteven Zultanski Alice Notley has consistently peopled her poetry with the voices of those around her: kids, friends, husbands, strangers, and the dead. In Thirty Odd Functions of Voice in the Poetry of Alice Notley, poet and critic Steven Zultanski offers an array of interpretations of this technique, sketching relationships between intimate speech and literary language.

her sentences enfold black feminism in verse

a matchbook

Oorsprongsverhalen die kunstenaars

Daardoor functioneert de taal in deze gedichten als instrument

Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war

Calling upon myth

maar geven ook blijk van een diep verlangen naar eenzaamheid

with a daughter who rebels against the controlling word of the fathers

all have gone deaf

Celes Tisdale—a poet and then professor at Buffalo State College—began leading poetry workshops with those incarcerated at Attica

Edited by Alec Mapes-Frances

a passageway across time