Bibliograph

For the ride, Alice Notley

Type

Label

For the ride, Alice Notley

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

For the ride

Oclc number

1104320611

Responsibility statement

Alice Notley

Series statement

Penguin poets

Summary

"Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending, book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness. Her newest book, For the Ride, is another such work. The protagonist, "One," is suddenly within the glyph, whose walls project scenes One can enter, and One does so. Other beings begin to materialize, and it seems like they (and One) are all survivors of a global disaster. They board a ship to flee to another dimension; they decide what they must save on this Ark are words, and they gather together as many as are deemed fit to save. They "sail" and meanwhile begin to change the language they are speaking, before disembarking at an abandoned future city"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The glyph of chaos with willows -- Save the words -- Radio free ark -- The langue continued -- Return to chaos -- Disembarkment at lost city -- Becoming poems -- Future ancient frescoes -- Temporary furniture -- The stupid battle -- City of nothing -- The new brain -- Wall of words -- Absorbs them -- I have been let out of prison -- Stark star -- The memory of nerves -- Back on ark

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