Disobedience

Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection <b>Mysteries of Small Houses</b> was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Structured as a long series of interconnected poems in which one of the main elements is an ongoing dialogue with a seedy detective <b>Disobedience</b> sets out to explore the visible as well as the unconscious. These poems composed during a fifteen-month period also deal with being a woman in France with turning fifty and with being a poet and thus seemingly despised or at least ignored.