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“Isn’t the prophetic something truly surprising, arriving from outside our impaired vision? Could we all have the ability to surprise if we were willing to loosen certain ideas about poetry that we think we require?”

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The Paris Review
Alice Notley's Prophecies - The Paris Review
When I first read Alice Notley's sprawling, twisting, hilarious, and deadly serious poem 'The Prophet,' I regained a certain measure of belief.
The poem challenges the conventional idea of prophecy, with lines that ricochet in different directions, making it hard to pinpoint the speaker.
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