Disobedience

Written over the period July 1995 through August 1996, Notley's long poem (very long poem in that the book is 284 pages)is a combination dream journal, commentary on current events (Parisian particularly), memoir, anti-patriarchal manifesto (especially poetry world patriarchy)and metaphysical journe......more

Knocking off one star because these poems only makes sense to me if I read them out loud to myself so fast that it starts to feel like I'm on speed, but when I do that for long enough to enter a kind of poetry trance, this feeling of sublimity begins to well from deep inside me, growing and growing......more

"What do I use my personality for?" That's the kind of question that will send you spiraling into a world of depression, and that's the kind of writing that is contained in this book. People always want to force art into a category. This isn't a collection of poems, nor is it one long poem. This is j......more

Notley is just the motherfucking best. I'm with Maggie Nelson when she calls this a "poetics of pure grouchiness," and says Notley's work "defiantly asserts its place at the table while hoping to upend the table altogether."......more

In the Strike section: "I am absolutely not you...Fuck off Walt, all of you." hahahaha......more