For the Ride Alfred Schaffer attesting to the narrative complexities

attesting to the narrative complexities of writing and living as a black woman and artist

and three short stories

and language to create an experiential portrait of narrative's power to both disfigure and restore

then about seeking to find the forms necessary to survive survival and survival’s requisite thoughts

and sentences unravel and reassemble as tangled webs of gold

For the Ride Alfred Schaffer attesting to the narrative complexitiesAlice Notley 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. For the Ride, is another such work. The protagonist, One, is suddenly within the glyph, whose walls project scenes One can enter, and One does so. Other beings begin to materialize, and it seems like they (and One) are all survivors of a