Notley, Alice: Speak Angel Series

Fonograf Editions, paperback Publication Date: February 21, 2023 Publisher Marketing: Composed of six interrelated full-length collections, THE SPEAK ANGEL SERIES is a work of stunning accomplishment and ambition by Alice Notley, winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, among many other honors. THE SPEAK ANGEL SERIES is composed of six full-length books in various forms but towards the achievement of a unifying epic narrative in which the poet, as character, leads all the souls of all the living and dead to a point zero where the remaking of the cosmos can be performed. As this is being done, the official public world takes place in Paris, France and the United States, and new characters are incorporated from the news and from the poet's life. The forms include a long-line narrative broken by lyric stand-alones, an operatic form designed to make the reader of it chant if reading aloud, a spiritual sequel to the author's book The Descent of Alette, written in th