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The Descent of Alette [“A car” “awash with blood”] (audio only)
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Author
Alice Notley
Photo credit: Terry Pollack
Born in 1945, Alice Notley received the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her book Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005 (Wesleyan University Press, 2006).