{"product_id":"mysteries-of-small-houses-isbn-9780140588965","title":"Mysteries of Small Houses","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Finalist \u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Los Angeles Time Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn autobiographical collection of poetry by Alice Notley, \"One of America's greatest poets\" (Poetry Foundation)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the California desert spring to life through evocative renderings of the American landscape, circa 1950. Likewise, her coming of age as a poet in the turbulent sixties is evoked through the era's angry, creative energy. As she looks backward with the perspective that time and age allows, Notley ably captures the immediacy of youth's passion while offering her own dry-eyed interpretations of the events of a life lived close to the bone. Like the colorful collages she assembles from paper and other found materials, Notley erects structures of image and feeling to house the memories that swirl around her in the present.In their feverish, intelligent renderings of moments both precise and ephemeral, Notley's poems manage to mirror and transcend the times they evoke. Her profound tributes to the stages of her life and to the identities she has assumed—child, youth, lover, poet, wife, mother, friend, and widow—are remarkable for their insight and wisdom, and for the courage of their unblinking gaze.mysteries of small housesWould Want to Be In  My Wildlife\u003cbr\u003eHouse of Self\u003cbr\u003eI'm Just Rigid Enough\u003cbr\u003eKiss of Fire\u003cbr\u003eOne of the Longest Times\u003cbr\u003eThe Future May Contain Me More\u003cbr\u003eSynchronous Chronology\u003cbr\u003eThe Obnoxious Truth\u003cbr\u003eRequiem for the First Half of Split\u003cbr\u003eExperience\u003cbr\u003e1965\u003cbr\u003eProphet's Job\u003cbr\u003eAs Good as Anything\u003cbr\u003e\"Go In and Out the Window\"\u003cbr\u003eApril Not an Inventory but a Blizzard\u003cbr\u003e1970\u003cbr\u003eChoosing Styles—1972\u003cbr\u003eNot Child\u003cbr\u003eA Baby Is Born Out of a White Owl's Forehead—1972\u003cbr\u003eThey Cut Out Her Eye and So She Dosen't Know If It's Real\u003cbr\u003eDiversey Street\u003cbr\u003eI Must Have Called and So He Comes\u003cbr\u003eColors—1973\u003cbr\u003eWaveland (Back in Chicago)\u003cbr\u003eCollage\u003cbr\u003e\"Bring Me a Pea Jacket and Sandwiches\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Howling Saint T-Shirt\u003cbr\u003ePlace Myself in New York (Need One More There)\u003cbr\u003eThe Trouble with You Girls\u003cbr\u003eSelf ' 78 Speak\u003cbr\u003e1979 A Dream\u003cbr\u003eThe Year of the Premonitory Dream That Ted and Steve Left Me\u003cbr\u003eHematite Heirloom Lives On (Maybe December 1980)\u003cbr\u003eC. '81\u003cbr\u003eGladly Though I Lost It and Knew I Would\u003cbr\u003eHow We Spent the Last Year of His Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Common Ground Ask Anyone You Know\u003cbr\u003ePoint of Fidelity\u003cbr\u003eI—Towards a Definition\u003cbr\u003eII—The Person That You Were Will Be Replaced\u003cbr\u003eFlowers\u003cbr\u003eA Metaphysics of Emotion\u003cbr\u003eBecoming Egyptian\u003cbr\u003eMid-80's\u003cbr\u003eYou Can Give It Away\u003cbr\u003eBut In This World Together and Not Passing Away\u003cbr\u003eThe New York Human\u003cbr\u003eI Am a Hardened Heart\u003cbr\u003eThe Brain Is a Toy but Loyalty's Metaphysical\u003cbr\u003eSept 17 \/ Aug 29, '88\u003cbr\u003eOwls\u003cbr\u003eVertical Axis\u003cbr\u003eThe Tyrant\u003cbr\u003eAlette\u003cbr\u003e101\u003cbr\u003eIf I Didn't Shiver I Wouldn't Be Cold\u003cbr\u003eIn Needless and to Poet What Are Real Things\u003cbr\u003e1992\u003cbr\u003eNew Dreams\u003cbr\u003e47th Birthday\u003cbr\u003eBobby (First Visit Back to the States)\u003cbr\u003eIn the Basement of Claypool's Department Store\u003cbr\u003eGoing Back Mornings\u003cbr\u003ePlace Blanche\u003cbr\u003eMore Below a Dream Of\u003cbr\u003eRemember What I Came Here to Do to This World Very Little Actually\u003cbr\u003eOffice\u003cbr\u003eMysteries of Small Houses\u003cbr\u003eLady Poverty\"Casual, forthright and perceptive, it is a culminating effort. Notley, as is her style, rarely shies away from unabashed, almost Whitmanesque generalizations, and here her bravery pays off. Again and again, she asks herself what poetry in America is and was...\" \u003cb\u003e -- Publishers Weekly\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":46300267315429,"sku":"NP9780140588965","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140588965.jpg?v=1767733411","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mysteries-of-small-houses-isbn-9780140588965","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}