In the Pines The Matrix Vehicle is a feat of

Vehicle is a feat of ungovernable imagination

memory and the present

the solitary mother and the insurgent multitude

Originally published in 1964

To read this book is to slink into a plum-black night where we hear 'the ghost rivers of Harlem play / light patches / in your good ear

In the Pines The Matrix Vehicle is a feat ofAlice Notley Alice Notley is considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets. Notley's work has always been highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics with long, expansive lines of poetry that often take the form of prose sentences, in an effort "to change writing completely." The title piece, a folksong like lament, makes a unified tale out of many stories of many people; the middle section, "The Black