Alma, or The Dead Women
By: Alice Notley.
Publisher: Granary Books; Distributed to the trade by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Description: "Alma, or The Dead Women, is a cross-genre book, poem/novel, poetry/prose, comedy/tragedy, that submits to no discipline but its own and was conceived by the author in a state of personal, national, and planetary grief. In this book, Alma, the true god of our world, is a foul-mouthed middle-aged working-class woman, a junky who injects heroin into the center of her forehead and dreams and suffers our nightmares with us. With the Dead Women, a community of spirits she attracts before but especially after September 11, 2001, Alma surveys with disbelief and horror the actions of the United States government as it perpetrates one war and prepares for another."--Jacket.