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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There is a wonderful, fascinating, even funny moment in the <a href="http://www.pw.org/mag/archive/browse_issue.php?volume=34.5"><span style='color:windowtext'>September/October issue</span></a> of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poets &amp; Writers </i>when <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/767"><span  style='color:windowtext'>Alice</span></a> <a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/notley/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Notley</span></a>, in the midst of her profile, says,<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I don&#8217;t have a poetics. I think that&#8217;s bullshit&#8230; I change my style all the time. I change the forms I use. The whole thing is in flux. I think that poetics is an industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Very clever to actually claim, as she does, one possible poetics right in the middle of that denial, and to do so in such succinct fashion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There are of course hundreds, perhaps <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>thousands</i>, of poets whose process fits Notley&#8217;s depiction of a shapeless, unformed, perpetually haphazard oeuvre to a T, and there&#8217;s no particular reason to read any of them, bereft as they are of those dimensions in their work. So this is not, it is essential to note, an accurate characterization of Notley&#8217;s own actual poetics. What then is  it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tone-wise, Notley&#8217;s claim reminds me of one of the poems or sections from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Waltzing Matilda, </i>a work I&#8217;ve always thought of as Notley&#8217;s breakthrough book, in the sense that no dunderhead from that point forward could ever again think of her simply as the bright young writing student who married Ted Berrigan. What I like about this poem, first of all, is how it opens with a sense of irritation, not so distant from &#8220;I think that&#8217;s bullshit&#8221;:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>12/20<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Here&#8217;s another scenario: He says<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>What we don&#8217;t need in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> is peace &amp; harmony<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>What we need is strife &amp; revolution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>But what he doesn&#8217;t realize is you need whatever peace &amp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Harmony you can get because most of your life <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>is</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Strife &amp; revolution.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> What if he did distort the facts a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Are you in a position to sell ten? Go call Johnny.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>I like society <span class=GramE>again,</span> I think it&#8217;s all like in Charles Dickens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Isherwood</span></span></span><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> book.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> Now I know I don&#8217;t have to save<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Fall off her &amp; a dog run away with it in his mouth. You know<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>The kind of thing he sees, <span class=GramE>then</span> he has fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p> 
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-tab-count:5'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;                                   </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    </span><span style='mso-tab-count:2'>     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;       </span>What<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Did you say?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;     </span>I think most<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Electrical appliances can be repaired via nipple,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Christmas tinsel &amp; same old angel.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> You can&#8217;t<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Do yourself right by yourself. No white<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Shall ever see the tears of a Menominee.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> It was a full<o:p></o:p></span></p> 
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Moon at </span><st1:time Hour="17" Minute="0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>5 PM</span></st1:time><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> &amp; pendant in the sky which wasn&#8217;t<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Dark over the park, the same park where in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>My dream of this morning the Martians landed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>A silver cylindrical aircraft that I knew was the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Martians because it could lower &amp; raise itself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Absolutely vertically, so I ran into Marion who was rushing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Along looking happy Wait I said <span class=GramE>there&#8217;s</span> the Martians<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>&amp; I ran over by the <span class=SpellE>bandshell</span> &amp; grabbed the kids<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>But then the spaceship really landed the Martians<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Landed.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> Then I woke up. It was a good dream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Because it was the next day.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> The Martians had landed. I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Got up &amp; ate a bialy &amp; made myself a pot of coffee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>At one level, this poem demonstrates exactly the poetics Notley spells out in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poets &amp; Writers </i>profile some 26 years later. The poem shifts topics right in the middle &#8211; it could seem aimless, or it could seem like the kind of diptych painting we used to see coming from someone like David Salle, in which one section of the frame has this brutal portrait of a poetry acquaintance, not particularly disguised (&amp; remember, in 1980, $90,000 bought more than a crack house in a Midwestern ghetto), which segues into a narrative depiction of a dream. The transition <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>between</i> the &#8220;panels&#8221; of the poem, from &#8220;Well we can settle down&#8230;&#8221; through &#8220;Menominee,&#8221; takes up fully 21 of its 45 lines &#8211; nearly half. It&#8217;s fascinating to watch Notley attempt to negotiate that terrain. In one sense, that is the passage here that is closest to the writing of Berrigan <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>pere</i></span>, a poet concerned far more with notating immanence than Notley has ever been.&#185; How do you negotiate that space in which writing <span class=GramE>continues,</span> tho there is nothing to write? Notley in this poem twists uncomfortably this way &amp; that &#8211; &#8220;I have hysteria&#8221; is not so far from on target &#8211; before getting (you can sense her relief) to her Martians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2006 will be remembered as the Year of Alice Notley, what with her two major collections in one season &#8211; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=1887123725"><span style='color:windowtext'>Alma, of The Dead Women</span></a>, </i>a new long poem &#8211; or series, which is how I read it, from Granary Press, and the dazzling <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6772-8.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005</span></a> </i>from Wesleyan, bringing together material from most if not all of her more than 30 books. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Over time, Notley has emerged as a much more narrative poet &#8211; <span class=SpellE>SPD&#8217;s</span> website calls <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Alma </i>a &#8220;poem/novel,&#8221; a term right out of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Leviticus</i> to my ear, tho there&#8217;s a truth to the way in which any of Notley&#8217;s mature works &#8211; my favorite remains <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140588965,00.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Mysteries of Small Houses</span></a> </i>&#8211; invariably engages multiple genres, multiple forms, trying it often feels like to fathom out their boundaries, as tho she were inhabiting always two ghosts at once. Elsewhere in her profile, Notley says that before she went off to college (first Barnard, then </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Iowa City</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>), <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>I grew up in this very small town in the </span><st1:place><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Mojave  Desert</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>, and I thought people were only prose writers&#8230;. When I was eighteen or nineteen, I began very painfully writing my first stories, and I thought I would be, in the words of a T-shirt that someone once gave Larry <span class=SpellE>McMurtry</span>, a Minor Regional Novelist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There is nothing minor about Alice Notley &#8211; and between </span><st1:place><st1:City><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Manhattan</span></st1:City><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:country-region><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>England</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> &amp; </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Paris</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> &#8211; she has obliterated most senses of the regional about her poetry as well. But there is, in all of her work, a deep loneliness &#8211; even when she&#8217;s living in the social whirlwind on St. Marks Place &amp; raising small children &#8211; that is at the core of the &#8220;I&#8221; in her poems, whether in the autobiography of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Small Houses </i>or a consciously &#8220;regional&#8221; piece like &#8220;Species,&#8221; from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Alma:</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the eyes of a cactus and <span class=SpellE>i</span> have the roots of a crow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have more pollen than anyone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the nose of an <span class=SpellE>athel</span> tree, <span class=SpellE>i</span> have the senses you can sense<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the pollen of a black-chinned hummingbird<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>you can smell me in the rain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the pollen of a cottontail rabbit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the pollen of the busted iron chassis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> am talking to you in the rain <span class=SpellE>i</span> have the tongue of a desert willow flower<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the nose of a tree <span class=SpellE>i</span> have the petals of a coyote <span class=SpellE>i</span> have the pollen of a snake<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the petals of a <span class=GramE>coyote,</span> <span class=SpellE>i</span> have the pollen of a jackrabbit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> fell apart <span class=SpellE>i</span> don&#8217;t have your parts and <span class=SpellE>i</span> never have to care any more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the pollen of a <span class=GramE>rattlesnake,</span> <span class=SpellE>i</span> am all made out of dirt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>you pluck me or throw a rock at me <span class=SpellE>i</span> fell apart <span class=SpellE>i</span> don&#8217;t car<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i&#8217;m</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> gravel that can hear you warbling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> fell apart, and so everything <span class=SpellE>i</span> am extends and you can smell me after the rain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the cream undersides of a <span class=GramE>person,</span> <span class=SpellE>i</span> have the yellow throat of a person<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have all the words of tamarisk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> gave everything away all the parts you wanted me to have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the mind-extending-far of the rain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> have the mind-extending-far of a busted iron chassis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> don&#8217;t have who you <span class=GramE>said,</span> <span class=SpellE>i</span> don&#8217;t feel what you said<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alice Notley has come a long, long way in  her three dozen years as a poet, taking great care with every step, becoming somebody completely unlike either of her husbands, or for that matter anyone else at all. She may choose to deny that what she does constitutes a poetics, but that denial, it seems to me, is not just a part of that poetics (as surely it is), it&#8217;s also part of the conscious loneliness that makes Alice Notley&#8217;s work instantly unmistakable, regardless of the forms it may take. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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