Culture of One
10 best books like Culture of One (Alice Notley): alphabet, Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod, Midwinter Day, The Cow, The Beforelife, Deepstep Come Shining, The Sonnets, Zirconia, My Love Is A Dead Arctic Explorer, Museum of Accidents
Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet. Her award-winning alphabet is based structurally...
As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and Ezra Pound's "Pisan Cantos." The first book of the Trilogy, "The Walls Do Not Fall," published in the midst of the "fifty thousand incidents" of the London...
| Author | Bernadette Mayer |
| ISBN | 0811214060 |
Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: ". . . a plain introduction to modes of love and reason/Then to...
| Author | Ariana Reines |
| ISBN | 0977106470 |
1. Reines is brave and honest because she's willing to admit that being socialized as female is, effectively, being trained to be a corpse.
2. This book starts out politely invitational and theoretical, but something terribly scatological happened about 20 pages in where the lingua bacteria...
| Author | Franz Wright |
| ISBN | 0375709436 |
In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery....
In C.D. Wright’s book-length poem Deepstep Come Shining, the eye and the ear are center. In the book, the result of a road trip taken with photographer Deborah Luster through Georgia and the Carolinas, the speaker of the poem is the “hand of the selenographer, mapper of lost roads.” Wright’s...
| Author | Ted Berrigan |
| ISBN | 0140589279 |
Originally published in 1964, The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition, with an introduction by Alice Notley, includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, Berrigan's poems involve friendship...
| Author | Chelsey Minnis |
| ISBN | 0966332482 |
I got this bk from my girlfriend, Amy Catanzano. Chelsey & Tina Brown Celona are 2 of Amy's best friends. I'm reading 1 of Tina's bks now. "Zirconia" is probably the most sensual poetry bk I've ever read. Minnis is hyper-aware of color & texture. I almost HATE to do this but I actually ENDORSE this...
| Author | Paige Ackerson-Kiely |
| ISBN | 1934103276 |
Poetry. Poems of a loneliness that quarrels with itself from the far edge of love, this is a collection of would-be love poems chastened by experience. "I was a Promethean dilettante disabused of tinder," says the speaker, who later observes, "After you reach adulthood / no one bets you'll set this world...
| Author | Rachel Zucker |
| ISBN | 1933517425 |
"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X's likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Sharon Olds."—The Believer
Rending the terrorizing forces of modern existence from abstraction and placing them directly in our laps, Museum of Accidents is a brutally...
| Author | Kate Greenstreet |
| ISBN | 0916272893 |
Poetry. Greenstreet's highly original CASE SENSITIVE posits a female central character who writes chapbooks that become the sections in this book. "What happens in the book I want to read?" Greenstreet asked herself. "And how would it sound?" Everything the character is reading, remembering, and...
| Author | Sabrina Orah Mark |
| ISBN | 0975499017 |
Funny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark’s debut collection take readers on a wild ride
The Babies, by Sabrina Orah Mark, is the premier winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Contest, judged by renowned poet Jane Miller (Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected...
| Author | George Oppen |
| ISBN | 0811203360 |
If possible I would recommend listening to Oppen read this himself
There is something so fragile and weary in his reading that punches me in the heart especially hard when there is a sort of immediate self undermining in his poetry, the first instance of this (and me having my heart broken) is the forth...
| Author | Juliana Spahr |
| ISBN | 0819565253 |
Juliana Spahr uses details to explore Hawai'i's politics of location and her own place in it as an outsider: a hard-core show where the singer shouts out "fuck you-aloha-I love you" over and over; the pidgin word 'da kine;' native Hawaiian rights to gathering; Palolo stream; the similarities and differences...
| Author | Susan Howe |
| ISBN | 0811219186 |
“What treasures of knowledge we cluster around.” That This is a collection in three pieces. “Disappearance Approach,” an essay about the sudden death of the author’s husband (“land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mouth”), begins the book with paintings by Poussin, an autopsy,...
| Author | Elisa Gabbert |
| ISBN | 0982617712 |
"What a complex and lovely book this is! Reading Elisa Gabbert's obsessively interior, technically rigorous poems is like listening in on the thoughts of a mind so fiercely observant and subtle that I find in them always some new twist, some surprising layer I hadn't noticed before. By turns moving...
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0062661175 |
From the Pulitzer Prize—winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent, lyrical new poems—an American master at the height of his talent, shining light out into the dark
The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums with the liveliness of the writer’s pen—Scribbled...
| Author | Leigh Stein |
| ISBN | 1612191347 |
Funny, surprising and lyrical, these poems range from the deserts of the Southwest to the abysses of Facebook. From online dating to beauty pageants, Greek mythology to road trips, Leigh Stein gives us resilient young women in longing and in love.
Post-confessional—like Sylvia Plath...
