No to Angel
by Alice Notley • from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls • Wesleyan University Press
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Alice NotleyAlice Notley is the author of many collections of poems including Pulitzer Prize-finalist Mysteries of Small Houses and Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems.
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Songs and Stories of the Ghouls"[Notley] creates an intricate form of writing, balances song against story, to assert her belief in the creative powers of poetry..." (Etel Adnan)
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"Starting from the everyday experience of being in a car heading into the city on a clogged highway, the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, Tomas Tranströmer, wrote:
I know that I have to go
far away,
straight through the city,
out
the other side, then step
out
and walk a long time in the
woods.
Walk in the tracks of the
badger.
More than an invitation to wildness, or a marker of the contrast between the civilized and the natural worlds, this, the first badger to appear in Tranströmer's poetry, was a manifest nod to Robert Bly and his role as guide."
—Mark Gustafson MORE
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