Thirty-Odd Functions of Voice in the Poems of Alice NotleySteven Zultanski Alice Notley has consistently peopled her poetry with the voices of those around her: kids, friends, husbands, strangers, and the dead. In Thirty Odd Functions of Voice in the Poetry of Alice Notley, poet and critic Steven Zultanski offers an array of interpretations of this technique, sketching relationships between intimate speech and literary language.

The politics and poetics of language

this volume collects two successive iterations of “felt translations

hear my song

experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty

language) as if searching desperately for a way out

maar dat geldt niet voor zijn rusteloze leven

We enter with

“blacked out when I grabbed the chop//it got so dark” – Rio Da Yung OG

from which the Calabrian abbot exegeted a pictorial history of the world’s successive stages

” to Lavinia’s spilling forth of red language

nevertheless

Elisa Gonzalez