An Expert Array of Talks & Essays by One of Our Greatest Living Poets.One of our greatest living poets, Alice Notley, the author of more than 40 books of poetry, has delivered an expert array of talks and essays over the last three decades. TELLING THE TRUTH AS IT COMES UP: SELECTED TALKS & ESSAYS 1991-2018 offers a significant contribution to literature, reimagining the possibilities of writing in our time and the complicated business of how and why writers devote their lives to their craft. Whether she is writing about other poetsEd Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Homer, bpNichol, Douglas Oliver, or William Carlos Williamsnoir fiction, the First Gulf War, dreams and what they're for, or giving us insight into her own work, Notley's observations are original, sobering, and always memorable. This collection often eschews the typical style of essay or lecture, resisting any categorization, and is consciously disobedient to academic structures in form. The results are thrilling new modes of thinking that may change the ways we read and write. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essay. Hybrid. Literary Criticism. History. Art. Music.
An Expert Array of Talks & Essays by One of Our Greatest Living Poets.One of our greatest living poets, Alice Notley, the author of more than 40 books of poetry, has delivered an expert array of talks and essays over the last three decades. TELLING THE TRUTH AS IT COMES UP: SELECTED TALKS & ESSAYS 1991-2018 offers a significant contribution to literature, reimagining the possibilities of writing in our time and the complicated business of how and why writers devote their lives to their craft. Whether she is writing about other poetsEd Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Homer, bpNichol, Douglas Oliver, or William Carlos Williamsnoir fiction, the First Gulf War, dreams and what they're for, or giving us insight into her own work, Notley's observations are original, sobering, and always memorable. This collection often eschews the typical style of essay or lecture, resisting any categorization, and is consciously disobedient to academic structures in form. The results are thrilling new modes of thinking that may change the ways we read and write. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essay. Hybrid. Literary Criticism. History. Art. Music.
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