Being Reflected Upon Upper Volta

Being Reflected Upon Upper VoltaAlice Notley In a New York Times review of Alice Notleys 2007 collection In the Pines, Joel Brouwer wrote that the radical freshness of Notleys poems stems not from what they talk about, but how they talk, in a stream of consciousness style that both describes and dramatizes the movement of the poets restless mind, leaping associatively from one idea or sound to the next. Notleys new collection is at once a window into the sources of her telepathic

much like their creator – each a second in a day

and psychedelic irony

and drawings

” In pared-down lines

’ and redolent of the works of Kenneth Anger

it is a philosophical and political exploration of the nature of language

his broken off cock left as tribute

and entertaining

Warsh's Desnos stands beside Ron Padgett's Cendrars and John Ashbery's Rimbaud

In an unfolding of rhythms

Originally published in America in 2006 by Leon Works

through the “lost” poems of the thirties where H