num_pages: 142
description: In Mysteries of Small Houses, extracted here, Alice Notley explores 'histories' of a southwestern childhood, early poetic awakenings in Iowa and New York's Lower East Side, the Vietnam War, bereavement, and a transference of the poetic 'self' to Paris. Disobedience is also extracted in this anthology. Wendy Mulford's new work here is the first since her collection The Bay of Naples. And Brian Coffey (1905-95) excavated eight French Pleiade poets -- Mallarme, Rimbaud, Nerval, Jarry, Apollinaire, Reverdy, Eluard, and Verlaine -- as 'givens' rather than translations.
language: English
title: Etruscan Reader VII: Alice Notley/Wendy Mulford/Brian Coffey
titlecomplete: Etruscan Reader VII: Alice Notley/Wendy Mulford/Brian Coffey
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Etruscan Books