{"product_id":"disobedience-isbn-9780141002293","title":"Disobedience","description":"Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, \u003cb\u003eMysteries of Small Houses\u003c\/b\u003e, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Structured as a long series of interconnected poems in which one of the main elements is an ongoing dialogue with a seedy detective, \u003cb\u003eDisobedience\u003c\/b\u003e sets out to explore the visible as well as the unconscious. These poems, composed during a fifteen-month period, also deal with being a woman in France, with turning fifty, and with being a poet, and thus seemingly despised or at least ignored.Disobedience\u003cb\u003eA Scarf of Bitter Water \u003ci\u003e(July 30-October 6,1995)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChange the Forms in Dreams\u003cbr\u003eWhat's Suppressed\u003cbr\u003eSun Is Very Near Hot and Buttockslike\u003cbr\u003eI Suppose This Is All a Lefthand Path\u003cbr\u003eWhere \u003ci\u003eIs\u003c\/i\u003e the Babylonian Meter with Its Lovely Caesura?\u003cbr\u003eCircorpse\u003cbr\u003eHelp Me Corpus Sagrada\u003cbr\u003eThe Islanders Remember That There Are No Women and No Men\u003cbr\u003eRed Fish\u003cbr\u003eEnuma Elish\u003cbr\u003eThe Forest\/Swamp\/Gorge\/Alp Hotel\u003cbr\u003eLana Turner at Versailles\u003cbr\u003e\"You\"\u003cbr\u003e\". . . I Thought She Was Going to Be a Ghost Story\"\u003cbr\u003eJust Under Skin of Left Leg\u003cbr\u003e\"Have Made Earth as the Mirror of Heaven\"\u003cbr\u003eLeft Side Liberation from E\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Strike \u003ci\u003e(October 7-December 18, 1995)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDante's Ass a Noble Prize\u003cbr\u003eParticle Doll\u003cbr\u003eThere Isn't Much to Do If You Aren't Geology\u003cbr\u003eAnd Still No Story,  How Will You Know When It's Over?\u003cbr\u003eMore of the Assholes of Giants\u003cbr\u003eRita, a Red Rose, Hates Her Clothes\u003cbr\u003eAn Impeccable Sexism I Mean an Elegant Idea or Procedure Haunts the Stars\u003cbr\u003eBreaking the Sound Barrier\u003cbr\u003eThe Morbid Managers Are Serving Trays of Charnel Flesh\u003cbr\u003eThe Big Slip on the Dead Woman Is Pink\u003cbr\u003eDancing into the Shadows of the Hideous Future City We Don't Think So During This Strike\u003cbr\u003eWhite Rice Words Are the Means of Exchange\u003cbr\u003eSeems to Be Heading for Mexico\u003cbr\u003eBeing with People a Cliche    Eating    Dinner\u003cbr\u003eIn the Motherless, Homogenized and E-Epistolary\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShit, Fire, and Crystal \u003ci\u003e(December 19, 1995-March 9, 1996)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreaking an Unsound Barrier . . .\u003cbr\u003eThe Veil Is, Like, Sexism or Is It Like It\u003cbr\u003eBeing Wiggy\u003cbr\u003eExposing My Breasts So You'll\u003cbr\u003eIn That Room, In That Time, But Later\u003cbr\u003eYou Cover All the Windows with Your Manuscript Pages\u003cbr\u003eWill Die and Die in So Many Ways, as Professional and Cultural Entity\u003cbr\u003eDo I Have to Be Mad Now Later and Always\u003cbr\u003eLost the Plumbing Lost My Story Good\u003cbr\u003eOh Put Some Obscenely Concrete Nouns Back in Your Poems\u003cbr\u003eHealthy and Foolish the Mainstream Stars of Kneejerk Joy and Despair May Win the Future\u003cbr\u003eIt's Dumb to Be a Member of a Dominant Species\u003cbr\u003ePeople Could Live in This Town, They Don't But I'm Going To\u003cbr\u003eMy Hair Is Terribly Dirty and the Dress Looks Drab\u003cbr\u003eMeet Me at La Chapelle for Some More Salami\u003cbr\u003eBut My Real Dreams Are Objective (Objects Made of Me by the Secret)\u003cbr\u003eDon't Give Me Drovel, Give Me a Shovel (Popular Poem)\u003cbr\u003eOpen-Stomach Woman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeveling \u003ci\u003e(March 10, 1996-June 17, 1996)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Know You'll Make Fun of the Clothes the Magi Are Wearing\u003cbr\u003eCrowded into a Breathless Bubble of Bad Thinking Our Poem the World Owned by a Few\u003cbr\u003eComing Down the Spiral Almanac Staircase\u003cbr\u003eCould I Ever Share a Tableau with Miss January's Murderers?\u003cbr\u003eEchoes the Past Fucks Me Over and Over\u003cbr\u003eIn Any Movie Whatsoever, in Order to Be Working Actors\u003cbr\u003eDo You Want to Be Excellent an A Actress No Not That Either\u003cbr\u003eWe Should All Live Like Rocks in a Flat Field\u003cbr\u003eEveryone's out After Some Emotional Action\u003cbr\u003eSeen the Whale-Skate and Seen a Tomb\u003cbr\u003eKeep Going Down to the Tomb\u003cbr\u003eNot That Person Anymore, Mitch Being Ever Fainter\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour Scarves and a Lion \u003ci\u003e(June 18, 1996-August 28, 1996)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHave I Been Here Before Is Something Unfamiliar\u003cbr\u003eThere Was Also Valium in the Drink, Placed There by Two Other People\u003cbr\u003eI Don't Have Sympathy We're Equals\u003cbr\u003ePouring Rain No Love from the Weather Except in My Dream\u003cbr\u003eRoaring Being a Given, My Roaring's a Given\u003cbr\u003eThe Lines Fall Away Sometimes\u003cbr\u003eThe Subterranean Senses Are Already There in New Air\u003cbr\u003eRemember the Station with No Name\u003cbr\u003eFurther Figuration of My Regressive Backash\u003cbr\u003eDon't Think That Thought It Will Poison This Moment\u003cbr\u003eThe Longest Vampiric History Vs. the Soul\u003cbr\u003ePlease Don't Anyone Save My Life Passim\u003cbr\u003eLion\u003cbr\u003eA New Hairdo\u003cbr\u003eThe Chaplet on the Donkey's Head: Both Keep Dissolving\u003cbr\u003eThe One Thousand Arms of Poking and Pinching Love\u003cbr\u003eThe Usual and the Most Tenuous of Goodbyes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This huge third Penguin volume from Notley outshines its predecessors, a tall order indeed.\" \u003cb\u003e-- Publishers Weeky\u003c\/b\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":48233094611173,"sku":"NP9780141002293","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141002293.jpg?v=1767725244","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/disobedience-isbn-9780141002293","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}