Alice Notley: Negativity's Kiss
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The heroine of Alice Notley's noir epic poem is named Ines. This is short for "inessential," which is what Notley says the poet is, and, really, what we all are.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.0 | Boots! |
| 0:09.0 | Where would we be without booms? |
| 0:12.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, Zendiburg. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir. |
| 0:20.0 | But where would we need without books? |
| 0:23.8 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:30.7 | Today, my guest is Alice Notley. |
| 0:33.8 | I've been trying to be in the same place that Alice is for at least ten years, as far as I'm |
| 0:41.2 | concerned. |
| 0:42.5 | Of the American-born poets living today, she is one of my favorites. |
| 0:48.8 | I can read her for hours and days. |
| 0:52.5 | I've only heard her read once, but it's a transforming experience. |
| 0:58.2 | And she's written a noir poem called Negativity's Kiss. |
| 1:04.6 | Who is this publisher? |
| 1:06.7 | This publisher is, and I have to read it myself, |
| 1:11.1 | Press Universitaire de Grins and du Arres. |
| 1:15.2 | It's a French university press. |
| 1:17.4 | Of all the things. |
| 1:19.1 | And the book has come out in French as well as in English. |
| 1:22.4 | And a beautiful small book which can be ordered from small press distribution. They seem to be carrying it in America. |
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