On our radar: 'For the Ride' by Alice Notley

During this time of slowed publication, we at J2 want to highlight some books from our (digital) reviews shelf. Today’s poetry title on our radar: For the Ride by Alice Notley (Penguin Poets, 2020). If you’d like to review this title, please let us know: jacket2.org/contact

[Text of image above: “From Penguin Random House: ‘Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending, book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness. Her newest book, For the Ride, is another such work.’”]

May 13, 2020

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