Alice Notley wins Lenore Marshall Prize
Alice Notley’s Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 was awarded this year’s Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry. This year’s judges were David Maker, Mark McMorris and Marie Ponsot. Ponsot has a thoughtful review of the book here.
Here is the final poem in the book:
No world is intactand no one cares about you.I leaned down overdon’t car about, I care aboutyouI leaned down over theworld in portrayalof carefulness, answeringsomething you couldn’t say.Walking or fallen and youwere supposedto give therapy to me —me leaning downbrushing with painted feathersto the left of chance your operatic,brokenbook.
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