{"product_id":"culture-of-one-isbn-9780143118930","title":"Culture of One","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist\/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a \"culture of one.\" The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. \u003ci\u003eCulture of One\u003c\/i\u003e offers further proof of how Notley \"has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cb\u003eAlice Notley (1945 -2025) \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California. She is the author of more than forty books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eMysteries of Small Houses \u003c\/i\u003e(Penguin, 1998, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); \u003ci\u003eDisobedience\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin, 2001, winner of the Griffin Prize); and \u003ci\u003eGrave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300129231077,"sku":"NP9780143118930","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143118930.jpg?v=1767724358","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/culture-of-one-isbn-9780143118930","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}