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   realize the first person singular as fully and nakedly as possible.” Her   
   subsequent book, Disobedience (2001), headed in the opposite direction,   
   showing disobedience to the notions of truth and reality, featuring comic   
   confrontations with reoccurring characters like Robert Mitch-ham, a man   
   that closely resembles the actor Robert Mitchum. Later books continued to   
   be at least somewhat character centered. Culture of One saw Notley return   
   to the desert of her childhood to tell the story of one of its residents.   
   This “novel in poems,” as its jacket copy describes it, covers the life of   
   Marie, a woman who lives in a shack in the town dump.   
      
   With Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Notley once again took on the   
   challenge of creating a feminist epic. In reframing and re-empowing Dido   
   and Medea, she wrote a meditation on destruction. “Logic” sees cities   
   destroyed as poems are stolen; a bloodied performer attempts to win over a   
   non-existent audience in “Perhaps Not for You”. There is, however, some   
   hope to be found in “Millions of Us”, which ends “We have this project   
   to / change our silence into the beautiful city of a voice.”   
      
   In addition to collections of poetry, Notley published the autobiography   
   Tell Me Again (1982), the play Anne’s White Glove (1985), and a book of   
   essays on poets and poetry, Coming After (2005). She edited and wrote the   
   introduction for the reissue of Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets (2000), as well   
   as editing, with her sons, The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (2005). In   
   March 2021, Notley was a guest blogger for Harriet. Her honors and awards   
   included an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and   
   Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.   
   She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She was married to the   
   British poet Douglas Oliver until his death in 2000.   
      
   In her later years, Alice Notley lived primarily in Paris and made   
   frequent trips to the U.S. to give readings and lectures. In 2015, she was   
   awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.   
      
   On the evening of May 19, 2025, Notley died in Paris.   
      
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