num_pages: 388
description: Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres, the postmodern series, the newly invented epic, political observation and invective, and the poem as novel. This chronological selection of her most notable work offers a delineation of her life and creative development. Formerly associated with the second generation of the New York School, Notley has become a poet with a completely distinctive voice. Grave of Light is a progression of changing forms and styles--an extensive panorama held together explicitly by the shape of the poet's times. Notley's poems challenge their subjects head-on, suffusing language with radiant truth.
language: English
title: Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005
titlecomplete: Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005
genres: The United States Of America, New York, Poetry
ratings_count: 307
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
publisher: Wesleyan University Press