Telling the Truth as It Comes Up - Selected Talks and Essays by Alice Notley

Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks and Essays 1991-2018 by Alice Notley / ISBN 9798987828816 / 280-page paperback, 5.5 x 7.5 inches, published by the Song Cave *** “Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” ―Tess Michaelson, Full Stop Alice Notley, the author of more than 40 books of poetry, has delivered an expert array of discussions over the last three decades. Telling the Truth as It Comes Up offers a significant contribution to literature, reimagining the possibilities of writing in our time and the complicated business of how and why writers devote their lives to their craft. Whether she is writing about other poets―Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Homer, bpNichol, Douglas Oliver or William Carlos Williams―noir fiction, the First Gulf War, dreams or giving us insight into her own work, Notley's observations are original, sobering and always memorable. This collection often es