Alice Notley: “I have another book coming out this year, from Letter Machine, called Benediction, that is 15 years old and is a rather massive single work. It vibrates all over itself, it just vibrates—I don’t know how else to describe it. But partway through my writing of it my husband, Douglas Oliver, became ill with cancer and, just as I was completing the book, died. So it has been difficult for me to face this poem.” Read the full interview here.