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Notley - Culture of One

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In a series of poems set in the American Southwest, the Pulitzer Prize-finalist author offers an array of verse based on a homeless woman who lives in her hometowns dump.

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Table of Contents ALSO BY ALICE NOTLEY 165 Meeting House Lane 1971 Phoebe - photo 1
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ALSO BY ALICE NOTLEY

165 Meeting House Lane Picture 3 1971
Phoebe Light Picture 4 1973
Incidentals in the Day World Picture 5 1973
For Frank OHaras Birthday Picture 6 1976
Alice Ordered Me to Be Made Picture 7 1976
A Diamond Necklace Picture 8 1977
Songs for the Unborn Second Baby Picture 9 1979
Dr. Williams Heiresses Picture 10 1980
When I Was Alive Picture 11 1980
How Spring Comes Picture 12 1981
Waltzing Matilda Picture 13 1981, REISSUED 2003
Tell Me Again Picture 14 1982
Sorrento Picture 15 1984
Margaret & Dusty Picture 16 1985
Parts of a Wedding Picture 17 1986
At Night the States Picture 18 1988
From a Work in Progress Picture 19 1988
Homers Art Picture 20 1990
The Scarlet Cabinet (with Douglas Oliver)Picture 21 1992
To Say You Picture 22 1993
Selected Poems of Alice Notley Picture 23 1993
Close to me & Closer... (The Language of Heaven) and Dsamre Picture 24 1995
The Descent of Alette Picture 25 1996
etruscan reader vii (with Wendy Mulford and Brian Coffey)Picture 26 1997
Mysteries of Small Houses Picture 27 1998
Byzantine Parables Picture 28 1998
Disobedience Picture 29 2001
Iphigenia Picture 30 2002
From the Beginning Picture 31 2004
Coming After: Essays on Poetry Picture 32 2005
City Of Picture 33 2005
Alma, or The Dead Women Picture 34 2006
Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 19702005 Picture 35 2006
In the Pines Picture 36 2007
Above the Leaders Picture 37 2008
Reason and Other Women Picture 38 2010
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Some of these poems have been previously published in The PulchritudinousReview, Fence, Margie, Daedalus, Upstairs at Duroc, and Cock-Now Zine.
In memory of Marie
I
Down on Front Street

Once again at the beginning I am down on Front Street,
by the old drugstore, the pharmacy where all healing starts.
Its possible one begins in healing in mercy in self-kindness. Dont
you know this? I dont know anything. Theres a sudden change
in the weatherthree signals click click click. Because
it was too hot and stark, but now we can have a cloud, the most
necessary thing: some say its for rain but I think not, its
a cloud, its itself, grey and luminous and sun-shielding. Do
you love it? I fear it, but I gradually wonder if I should. A vast and
silken entity, and one sees that it possesses tentacles, extensions,
silky grey arms hanging down. With a joyous look on his face a dark
man touches one of these armsfor the cloud is that close, its in the street;
but Im afraid and enter the pharmacy to watch the cloud from behind
the glass wall: should I go back outside and touch it? Eventually...

At the Beginning Stop Suffering

I am mercy; I have no understanding of who I am;
though, with my thousand arms, I have written of my own
nature since writing began. I inhabit you and you write about me again.
There is always the sound or color or feeling in which I can arrive.
Lying in bed suffering from loneliness or anger the woman
with eyes closed sees me bending over her, a many-armed figure
wearing a rayed disk hat. Not a clear image, but made of the blue and red
brocade beneath the eyelids. Yes you were right, you contain all
the qualities and possibilities, all the godsIm here inside when
you need me; I can come to you when youve forgotten my
name; a voice of yours, hidden to you, calls for mercy and mercy always comes.

The Mercy Moment

The most outstanding characteristic of the mercy moment, the time when she comes, is how instantly the suffering stops. You have to stop thinking. You dont have time for guilt, or you will neither sleep nor begin again. This was how I started this time; then I asked myself what I would like to read, or rather what items I wanted in my culture, to contain created, newly and justly, my needs. The world isnt a text to be deciphered, it is a new creation though ancientbut what is antiquity to me? Every moment must destroy suffering anew; a cloud enters you, to begin in.
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