Alice Notley – författare

»I dessa dikter ekar vår samtids farliga händelser och eländiga villkor. Notley reflekterar i Nietzsches anda men med sin egen självlysande och inspirerande uppriktighet. Ingen bok av Alice Notley är mindre än magnifik, och det är precis vad Vissa magiska handlingar är.« | Lyn Hejinian

I Vissa magiska handlingar [Certain Magical Acts, 2016] penetrerar Alice Notley världens sår: från den gångna ekonomiska krisen och havererade ekosystem, till de politiska systemens misslyckanden. Resultatet är en dikt ämnad att överleva själva planetens undergång. Alice Notley är en av vår tids stora amerikanska poeter. Rudy Burckhardt har kallat henne »vår tids Homeros«. Med Vissa magiska handlingar introduceras hon nu för första gången på svenska, i översättning av Marie Silkeberg.   

ALICE NOTLEY [född 1945] är en amerikansk poet, född i Bisbee, Arizona och uppvuxen i Kalifornien. Hon har utkommit med ett stort antal diktsamlingar, utspridda över fem decennier, och är mångfaldigt prisbelönt, bland annat med de prestigefyllda Griffin- och Lenore Marshall-priserna. Hon har även mottagit en Academy Award in Literature från Amercian Academy of Arts and Letters och The Shelley Memorial Award från Poetry Society of America. Alice Notley bor och arbetar numera i Paris. 

»Alice Notley behärskar magin i att skapa en självlysande illusion av en närvaro här och nu, i uttryckens ställe. Hennes verk krossar, så som det alltid har krossat, alla förväntningar.« | Andrei Codrescu    

»Att läsa Alice Notley är något annat än att läsa: språkets rena kraft, den blixtrande uppfinningsrikedomen, de snabba förvandlingarna och nybildandet av arketyper, sammantaget bildar detta en kroppsligare, mer centrifugal, hallucinatorisk upplevelse än läsning, lika uppslukande som den är upplysande.« | The Chicago Tribune 

A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan.

“Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city itself.”—John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

“Get the Money!” was Ted Berrigan’s mantra for the paid writing gigs he took on in support of his career as a poet. This long-awaited collection of his essential prose draws upon the many essays, reviews, introductions, and other texts he produced for hire, as well as material from his journals, travelogues, and assorted, unclassifiable creative texts. Get the Money! documents Berrigan’s innovative poetics and techniques, as well as the creative milieu of poets—centered around New York’s Poetry Project—for whom he served as both nurturer and catalyst. Highlights include his journals from the ’60s, depicting his early poetic discoveries and bohemian activities in New York; the previously unpublished “Some Notes About ‘C,’” an account of his mimeo magazine that serves as a de facto memoir of the early days of the second-generation New York School; a moving and prescient obituary, “Frank O’Hara Dead at 40”; book “reviews” consisting of poems entirely collaged from lines in the book; art reviews of friends and collaborators like Joe Brainard, George Schneeman, and Jane Freilicher; and his notorious “Interviews” with John Cage and John Ashbery, both of which were completely fabricated. Get the Money! provides a view into the development of Berrigan’s aesthetics in real time, as he captures the heady excitement of the era and champions the poets and artists he loves.

Praise for Get the Money!:

"Get the Money! captures the esprit de corps of the particular community close to Ted’s door on St Mark’s Place. This book of prose with its nimble lift, tinged with intimacy, wit, and perception is a welcome addition to the second generation NY School canon."—Anne Waldman, author of Trickster Feminism

"Ted was my mentor, my teacher of America and its poetry, and I often quote him. He was an oral genius and I have regretted not writing down everything he said to me. Now I have this collection of journals, critical writing on art, aphorisms, and correspondence. It makes for a grand portrait of the poet who charmed my whole generation. Ted Berrigan is alive in this book in ways that no one could guess."—Andrei Codrescu, author of Too Late for Nightmares

"It’s always a significant occasion when we have an edition of a poets prose. Get the Money! offers us an important window into Ted Berrigan’s laboratory, his no bullshit attitude, his class awareness, his gorgeous sentimentality, and his disarming anarchic humor. This book is what anyone could hope it would be: funny, tender, brilliant, intimate, original, alive."—Peter Gizzi, author of Now It''s Dark

"Ted Berrigan''s voice has always been instantly familiar to me so Get the Money! feels less like a reading experience and more like taking a long walk with my favorite poet, then buying him a drink someplace and letting him talk."—Cedar Sigo, author of All This Time