“Still no philosophy!”
walking past
a brilliant garden past
its bloom
reds purples
a street construction
worker
and I are
darkly
an envelopment
These poems are included in Alice Notley's collection Early Works, edited by Nick Sturm and forthcoming from Fonograf Editions in February 2023.
Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including, most recently, Certain Magical Acts (2016), Eurynome's Sandals (2019), and For the Ride (2020). Entitled The Speak Angel Series, her latest collection of new material is forthcoming from Fonograf Editions in February 2023. She lives in Paris.
