"Alice Notley’s Disobedience: The Shape-Shifting Voice that Changed American Poetry"
"Across Notley’s oeuvre, voice can index genre or convention or otherwise bound the poem in a particular time and place. The variousness of its functions has made voice the defining characteristic of Notley’s poetry, remarked upon by her peers, by critics and scholars, and by Notley herself. It is both the marker of her idiosyncrasy and the vehicle through which she conjures past, present, and future. It connects Notley to poetic traditions and enables her refusal of those same traditions."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jonathan Skinner on "Unfolder"
"I suppose the poem downplays metamorphosis, and all its metaphorical associations, compressing the monarch’s ontogeny, from egg to larva or caterpillar molting through its instars eating their own shed skin to pupal stage with its cremaster to chrysalis and finally butterfly, into one stanza, like those time-lapse photography films we all watched in school. Instead, 'Unfolder' dilates on the risky moment of sexual encounter." |
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