NOTLEY, Alice
Close to me & Closer... ( The Language of Heaven ) and Désamère

Alice Notley’s two books, Close to me & Closer… (The Language of Heaven) and Désamère, are works that are wholly their art, meaning they occur as their language shape/measure. The text is a rich current crossing, as at the moment of imagining, into being in death and in an expanded life. Notley transgresses conventional contemporary categories of genre; rather than genre, the form of the writing is the mind’s inner sense and motion. [publisher's note]

First published in 1995.

Published by O Books, 2008
Poetry / Facsimile & Reprints