The Descent of Alette by Notley, Alice

The Descent of Alette (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140587647)

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The Descent of Alette by Notley, Alice

The Descent of Alette

$20.00
The Descent of Alette by Notley, Alice

The Descent of Alette

$20.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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The Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure, with rhythmic units indicated by quotations marks, Notley has created a "spoken" text, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination, mystery, and power.

Author: Alice Notley
ISBN-10: 0140587640
ISBN-13: 9780140587647
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
Award: Boston Book Review - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/18/1996 pg. 65
Booklist 03/01/1996 pg. 1118
By Alice Notley
By Alice Notley
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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.

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