Close to me & Closer... (The Language of Heaven) and Désamère

Author: Alice Notley

Publisher: O Books (1995)

Alice Notley’s two books, Close to me & Closer… (The Language of Heaven)and Désamère, are works that are wholly their art, meaning they occur as their language shape/measure. The text is a rich current crossing, as at the moment of imagining, into being in death and in an expanded life. Notley transgresses conventional contemporary categories of genre; rather than genre, the form of the writing is the mind’s inner sense and motion.