SKU: 82429933601

Mr. Gasket Transmission Oil Pan - Polished Aluminum - 9796PMRG

Sale price$119.65 Regular price$132.95
Save 10%

Shipping Estimate
USA
  • USA
  • CAN

Ships within 48 hours · Estimated delivery Jul 14 - Jul 19

Promo Codes Available:

For Your Every Summer RSVP, with Code: SUMMER15

Description

Mr. Gasket Transmission Oil Pan - Polished Aluminum - 9796PMRGOverview: These pans are offered in stock depth or deep with extra capacity and available in both steel and aluminum to fit your specific needs. Each kit Includes the drain plug, gasket and hardware. Features: Polished Aluminum Stock capacity Includes drain plug, gasket and hardware Application: < Year Make Model Submodel Engine Size 1967 1974 GMC K15 K1500 Suburban 250 4. 1 L6 1967 1971 GMC K15 K1500 Suburban 292 4. 8 L6 1967 1969 GMC K15 K1500

Overview:

These pans are offered in stock depth or deep with extra capacity and available in both steel and aluminum to fit your specific needs. Each kit Includes the drain plug, gasket and hardware.

Features:

  • Polished / Aluminum
  • Stock capacity
  • Includes drain plug, gasket and hardware

Application:

<
Year Make Model Submodel Engine Size
1967 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1971 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 305/5 V6
1967 - 1968 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1967 - 1968 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 351/5.7 V6
1967 - 1970 Pontiac Executive 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1974 Cadillac Commercial Chassis 472/7.7 V8
1965 - 1967 Buick Special 225/3.7 V6
1965 - 1967 Buick Special 300/4.9 V8
1967 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1967 - 1974 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1974 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1967 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1967 - 1982 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1980 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1970 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1968 - 1970 Pontiac Tempest Base 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1969 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1967 - 1974 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1968 - 1970 Pontiac Tempest Base 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1969 Pontiac Tempest Custom 250/4.1 L6
1968 - 1969 Pontiac Tempest Custom 350/5.7 V8
1967 - 1982 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1969 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1968 - 1972 Buick Sportwagon 350/5.7 V8
1969 - 1974 Checker Taxicab 350/5.7 V8
1969 - 1974 Checker Taxicab 250/4.1 L6
1969 Checker Taxicab 327/5.3 V8
1967 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1967 - 1969 Pontiac Executive 428/7 V8
1966 - 1967 Pontiac Tempest Custom 230/3.8 L6
1968 - 1969 Buick Sportwagon 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1969 Pontiac Tempest Custom 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1969 Pontiac Catalina 428/7 V8
1968 - 1977 Pontiac Catalina 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1976 Pontiac Catalina 455/7.5 V8
1970 - 1977 Pontiac Catalina 350/5.7 V8
1965 - 1966 Pontiac Bonneville 421/6.9 V8
1967 - 1977 Pontiac Bonneville 400/6.6 V8
1967 - 1969 Pontiac Bonneville 428/7 V8
1970 - 1976 Pontiac Bonneville 455/7.5 V8
1967 - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Base 400/6.6 V8
1967 Pontiac Firebird Base 230/3.8 L6
1967 Pontiac Firebird HO 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Base 250/4.1 L6
1968 Pontiac Firebird Sprint 250/4.1 L6
1968 Pontiac Firebird 350 350/5.7 V8
1969 - 1977 Pontiac Firebird 400/6.6 V8
1969 - 1976 Pontiac Firebird 250/4.1 L6
1965 - 1966 Pontiac Catalina Base 421/6.9 V8
1966 Pontiac Catalina 2+2 421/6.9 V8
1966 Pontiac Catalina Safari 421/6.9 V8
1970 - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Esprit 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1975 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1975 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 350/5.7 V8
1967 Pontiac Catalina Base 400/6.6 V8
1969 - 1975 Chevrolet Nova 250/4.1 L6
1969 - 1972 Chevrolet Nova 307/5 V8
1969 - 1970 Chevrolet Nova 396/6.5 V8
1969 - 1970 Chevrolet Nova 153/2.5 L4
1969 - 1970 Chevrolet Nova 230/3.8 L6
1959 - 1964 Buick Estate Wagon 401/6.6 V8
1959 - 1961 Buick Estate Wagon 364/6 V8
1961 Pontiac Tempest Custom 195/3.2 L4
1961 Pontiac Tempest Custom 215/3.5 V8
1964 Buick Estate Wagon 300/4.9 V8
1964 Cadillac Series 62 429/7 V8
1964 Cadillac Series 75 Fleetwood 429/7 V8
1964 Pontiac Tempest Custom 326/5.3 V8
1964 Buick Estate Wagon 425/7 V8
1964 - 1967 Cadillac Commercial Chassis 429/7 V8
1965 Pontiac Tempest 215/3.5 L6
1965 Pontiac Tempest 326/5.3 V8
1966 - 1967 Buick Special 340/5.6 V8
1966 Buick Sportwagon Base 340/5.6 V8
1964 Pontiac Tempest Custom 215/3.5 L6
1967 Buick Sportwagon 340/5.6 V8
1967 - 1980 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1969 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1967 - 1969 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1967 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1965 Pontiac Tempest 230/3.8 L6
1967 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1966 Buick Sportwagon Custom 340/5.6 V8
1977 - 1987 GMC Jimmy 305/5 V8
1970 - 1990 GMC Jimmy 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1990 GMC Jimmy 379/6.2 V8
1965 Chevrolet Biscayne 230/3.8 L6
1965 - 1972 Chevrolet Biscayne 250/4.1 L6
1965 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 327/5.3 V8
1965 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 396/6.5 V8
1965 - 1967 Chevrolet Biscayne 283/4.6 V8
1963 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 427/7 V8
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 327/5.4 V8
1968 Chevrolet Biscayne 307/5 V8
1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Biscayne 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 350/5.7 V8
1967 - 1971 Chevrolet Camaro SS 350/5.7 V8
1970 - 1971 Chevrolet Camaro SS 402/6.6 V8
1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Base 307/5 V8
1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Base 350/5.7 V8
1967 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Base 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro RS 350/5.7 V8
1971 - 1972 Chevrolet Camaro Base 402/6.6 V8
1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro RS 307/5 V8
1967 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro RS 250/4.1 L6
1970 - 1976 Buick Riviera 455/7.5 V8
1973 - 1977 Buick Regal 350/5.7 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Riviera 425/7 V8
1965 - 1966 Buick Skylark 401/6.6 V8
1964 - 1965 Buick Riviera 401/6.6 V8
1966 - 1967 Buick Skylark 340/5.6 V8
1967 - 1969 Buick Riviera 430/7 V8
1967 Buick Skylark 400/6.6 V8
1969 Buick Skylark Base 250/4.1 L6
1965 - 1967 Buick Skylark 225/3.7 V6
1965 - 1967 Buick Skylark 300/4.9 V8
1972 Buick Skylark 350/5.7 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Wildcat 401/6.6 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Wildcat 425/7 V8
1969 Buick Skylark Base 350/5.7 V8
1967 - 1969 Buick Wildcat 430/7 V8
1968 Buick Wildcat Base 430/7 V8
1970 Buick Wildcat 455/7.5 V8
1968 - 1974 Cadillac Calais 472/7.7 V8
1971 Buick Skylark Custom 455/7.5 V8
1965 - 1967 Cadillac DeVille 429/7 V8
1968 - 1974 Cadillac DeVille 472/7.7 V8
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
1969 - 1986 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 307/5 V8
1970 - 1972 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
1973 - 1986 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1971 - 1977 Pontiac Bonneville 350/5.7 V8
1965 - 1966 Pontiac Catalina Base 389/6.4 V8
1966 Pontiac Catalina Safari 389/6.4 V8
1967 Pontiac Catalina Base 428/7 V8
1967 Pontiac Catalina Safari 400/6.6 V8
1967 Pontiac Catalina Safari 428/7 V8
1975 - 1982 Checker Marathon
1975 Buick Century Base 231/3.8 V6
1975 Buick Century Base 350/5.7 V8
1976 - 1977 Buick Century 231/3.8 V6
1973 - 1977 Buick Century 350/5.7 V8
1977 Buick Century 305/5 V8
1975 Buick Century Custom 231/3.8 V6
1975 Buick Century Custom 350/5.7 V8
1975 Buick Century Luxus 350/5.7 V8
1977 Buick Century 403/6.6 V8
1976 - 1981 Buick Electra 350/5.7 V8
1977 - 1979 Buick Electra 403/6.6 V8
1970 - 1976 Buick Electra 455/7.5 V8
1981 Buick Electra 307/5 V8
1980 - 1981 Buick Electra 252/4.1 V6
1970 - 1976 Buick Estate Wagon 455/7.5 V8
1980 Buick Electra 301/4.9 V8
1977 - 1979 Buick Estate Wagon 403/6.6 V8
1970 - 1981 Buick Estate Wagon 350/5.7 V8
1976 - 1981 Buick LeSabre 231/3.8 V6
1970 - 1981 Buick LeSabre 350/5.7 V8
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 292/4.8 L6
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 454/7.4 V8
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 379/6.2 V8
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet C30 250/4.1 L6
1988 - 1990 Chevrolet C3500 350/5.7 V8
1988 - 1990 Chevrolet C3500 379/6.2 V8
1988 - 1990 Chevrolet C3500 454/7.4 V8
1974 - 1975 Chevrolet Camaro 350/5.7 V8
1974 - 1975 Chevrolet Camaro 250/4.1 L6
1973 - 1974 Chevrolet Nova Base 250/4.1 L6
1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Nova 402/6.6 V8
1969 - 1975 Chevrolet Nova 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC C1500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1980 GMC C1500 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1979 - 1984 GMC C1500 Suburban 305/5 V8
1979 - 1980 GMC C1500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1966 - 1974 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 250/4.1 L6
1966 - 1974 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 292/4.8 L6
1966 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
1966 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
1970 - 1974 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
1970 - 1973 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 307/5 V8
1979 - 1980 GMC C1500 292/4.8 L6
1979 - 1990 GMC C1500 305/5 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC C1500 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC C1500 250/4.1 L6
1979 - 1980 GMC C1500 454/7.4 V8
1982 - 1990 GMC C1500 379/6.2 V8
1985 - 1990 GMC C1500 262/4.3 V6
1975 - 1978 GMC C15 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1975 - 1978 GMC C15 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1975 - 1978 GMC C15 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC C15 Suburban 305/5 V8
1977 - 1985 Chevrolet K20 305/5 V8
1976 - 1978 Chevrolet K20 454/7.4 V8
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 292/4.8 L6
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet K20 400/6.6 V8
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 350/5.7 V8
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet K20 250/4.1 L6
1982 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 379/6.2 V8
1985 Chevrolet K20 262/4.3 V6
1969 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 379/6.2 V8
1977 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 305/5 V8
1973 - 1985 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1980 Oldsmobile Delta 88 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1976 Oldsmobile Delta 88 455/7.5 V8
1968 - 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass 250/4.1 L6
1970 - 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass 455/7.5 V8
1965 - 1966 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 425/7 V8
1965 Oldsmobile F85 225/3.7 V6
1965 - 1967 Oldsmobile F85 330/5.4 V8
1966 Oldsmobile F85 Base 250/4.1 L6
1966 Oldsmobile F85 Deluxe 330/5.4 V8
1967 - 1971 Oldsmobile F85 250/4.1 L6
1970 - 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix 455/7.5 V8
1971 - 1975 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 455/7.5 V8
1967 - 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix 400/6.6 V8
1969 - 1977 Pontiac Firebird 350/5.7 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC K15 350/5.7 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC K15 305/5 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC K15 400/6.6 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC K15 250/4.1 L6
1979 - 1980 GMC K1500 400/6.6 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC K1500 250/4.1 L6
1980 GMC K1500 454/7.4 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC K1500 350/5.7 V8
1970 - 1977 Pontiac LeMans Sport 350/5.7 V8
1977 Pontiac LeMans Sport 403/6.6 V8
1969 - 1977 Pontiac LeMans Safari 400/6.6 V8
1977 Pontiac LeMans Safari 301/4.9 V8
1977 - 1980 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser 350/5.7 V8
1980 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser 307/5 V8
1971 - 1973 Buick Centurion 455/7.5 V8
1973 Buick Centurion 350/5.7 V8
1973 - 1974 Buick Century 455/7.5 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Electra 425/7 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Electra 401/6.6 V8
1967 - 1969 Buick Electra 430/7 V8
1965 - 1966 Buick Gran Sport 401/6.6 V8
1970 - 1972 Buick GS 350/5.7 V8
1964 Buick LeSabre 425/7 V8
1966 - 1967 Buick LeSabre 340/5.6 V8
1968 - 1974 Buick LeSabre Base 350/5.7 V8
1967 Buick Gran Sport 340/5.6 V8
1970 - 1976 Buick LeSabre 455/7.5 V8
1967 Buick Gran Sport 400/6.6 V8
1967 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 230/3.8 L6
1967 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 292/4.8 L6
1966 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 305/5 V6
1966 - 1968 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 351/5.7 V6
1968 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
1968 - 1973 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 307/5 V8
1969 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1970 - 1972 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
1970 - 1972 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
1969 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1973 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 307/5 V8
1973 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
1968 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 327/5.4 V8
1968 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
1973 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1967 - 1974 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1974 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1969 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 305/5 V6
1967 - 1968 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 351/5.7 V6
1968 - 1973 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 307/5 V8
1967 - 1968 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
1965 - 1966 Pontiac Bonneville 389/6.4 V8
1965 - 1967 Cadillac Calais 429/7 V8
1964 - 1966 Cadillac Eldorado 429/7 V8
1965 - 1967 Cadillac Fleetwood 429/7 V8
1968 - 1973 Cadillac Fleetwood 472/7.7 V8
1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Base 472/7.7 V8
1974 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 472/7.7 V8
1974 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special 472/7.7 V8
1974 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special Brougham 472/7.7 V8
1980 Chevrolet K10 454/7.4 V8
1977 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 350/5.7 V8
1980 Chevrolet K10 292/4.8 L6
1977 - 1984 Chevrolet K10 250/4.1 L6
1977 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 305/5 V8
1982 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 379/6.2 V8
1985 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 262/4.3 V6
1977 - 1983 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 305/5 V8
1969 - 1984 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1984 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 379/6.2 V8
1975 - 1979 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
1975 - 1978 GMC C25 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1975 - 1978 GMC C25 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1975 - 1978 GMC C25 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC C25 Suburban 305/5 V8
1978 GMC C25 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
1980 GMC C2500 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
1979 - 1986 GMC C2500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1986 GMC C2500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC C2500 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1982 - 1986 GMC C2500 Suburban 305/5 V8
1982 - 1986 GMC C2500 Suburban 379/6.2 V8
1980 - 1990 GMC C2500 305/5 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC C2500 350/5.7 V8
1985 - 1990 GMC C2500 262/4.3 V6
1982 - 1990 GMC C2500 379/6.2 V8
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1975 Chevrolet El Camino 250/4.1 L6
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 307/5 V8
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 327/5.3 V8
1968 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 396/6.5 V8
1964 - 1967 Chevrolet El Camino 327/5.3 V8
1966 - 1967 Chevrolet El Camino 396/6.5 V8
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Base 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Base 250/4.1 L6
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet El Camino Base 230/3.8 L6
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Base 307/5 V8
1968 Chevrolet El Camino Base 327/5.4 V8
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet El Camino Base 327/5.3 V8
1968 - 1970 Chevrolet El Camino Base 396/6.5 V8
1968 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 230/3.8 L6
1979 - 1990 GMC C3500 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1990 GMC C3500 379/6.2 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC C3500 454/7.4 V8
1979 - 1986 GMC C3500 292/4.8 L6
1986 GMC C3500 305/5 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC G15 305/5 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC G15 250/4.1 L6
1977 - 1978 GMC G15 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC G1500 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC G1500 250/4.1 L6
1979 GMC G1500 400/6.6 V8
Shipping Notes
  • Free Standard Shipping on $100+ Orders to the USA.
  • Except Preorder products are shipped in 48 hours.
  • Delivery to the USA:
  1. Standard Shipping : 3-10 business days
  • If time is of the essence, please consider selecting expedited delivery for faster service.
Exchange/Return Notes
  • We offer a 30-day return/exchange service after receiving.
  • Final sale items are not eligible for returns or exchanges.
  • To process your return/exchange, please contact us at [email protected]
  • Please click here for more details>>> Return & Exchange Policy
SKU: 82429933601

Discover Niche Categories That Outsell

Top-Converting Item to Boost Your Average Order

4.8 ★★★★★
Based on 455 reviews
Sort
Highest Rating
Newest First
Oldest First
Product Reviews
R
Verified Purchase
Rachel S.
Omaha, US
★★★★★ 5
Exquisite, enrapturing
Format: Paperback
Loved the gritty, visceral language and the epic nature of this poem. Notely blows me away -- the loss of memory, the tangled and eternal subway, the owls and masks.
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2014
E
Verified Purchase
Eileen O Malley Callahan
Louisville, US
★★★★★ 5
Five Stars
Format: Paperback
Brilliant, lucid, engaging and brave, a feminist chthonic journey shimmering with poetic bravado.
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2014
J
JeFF Stumpo
Grantham, US
★★★★★ 5
A Feminist Divine Comedy?
Format: Paperback
Let me start with this: The Descent of Alette is difficult to read at first. Notley "puts quotation marks around" "groups of words" "in lines" "that can be off-putting." Note that I'm not quoting from the book there, just giving an example of what the book's text appears like. This forces us to read more slowly, taking in each line a few words at a time. What appears to be awkward is in fact a great solution to the speed-reading most of us do these days. That being said, it's troublesome for the first few poems, less so after that, virtually invisible by the end of the first section. When talking about this book, I immediately compare it to Dante's Divine Comedy, and I commonly see others do the same (see an earlier review here on Amazon.com). Exchange Hell for a subway, and you've basically got it: an underground realm ruled over by a Tyrant, poor souls being tortured, though in this case there is no indication that they have done anything to deserve it. Notley's language might not be quite as beautiful/harsh as Dante's, but her images stand with anything he created. After introducing two characters on a subway, a woman and her baby, both on fire, Notley writes: "another woman" "in uniform" "from above ground" "entered" "the train" "She was fireproof" "she wore gloves, & she" "took" "the baby" "took the baby" "away from the" "mother" "Extracted" "the burning baby" "From the fire" "they made together" "But the baby" "still burned" ("But not yours" "It didn't happen" "to you") "We don't know yet" "if it will" "stop burning," "said the uniformed" "woman" "The burning woman" "was crying" "she made a form" "in her mind" "an imaginary" "form" "to settle" "in her arms where" "the baby" "had been" "We saw her fiery arms" "cradle the air" "She cradled air" ("They take your children" "away" "if you"re on fire") "In the air that" "she cradled" "it seemed to us there" "floated" "a flower-like" "a red flower" "its petals" "curling flames" "She cradled" "seemed to cradle" "the burning flower of" "herself gone" "her life" ("She saw" "whatever she saw, but what we saw" "was that flower") After surviving the horrors of the subway, Alette goes even deeper underground, passing through a series of psychological challenges that at times seem straight out of Freud, at times out of Classical mythology, at times out of collective dreams. Throughout it all, we learn more and more about Alette, who is not just a "hero" who goes through the motions necessary to the plot, but who considers and stumbles and is confused and learns. The third section of the book is a rebirth, wherein Alette finds a source for a stronger power than the Tyrant's, and it is distinctly feminist in its nature. I need to note here for those who react to feminism in a knee-jerk way: Notley's feminism is not a militant feminism, though it requires brief "military" action on Alette's part. Men are helpful in the story, have purpose besides being the bad guy. If anything, what Notley attacks in the form of the Tyrant is the idea of a corrupt masculinity, a kind of Big Brother who would easily stand as an antagonist in any number of 20th/21st century literary works. Alette's feminism is the discovery of her place in the world, and that place is not slaving away mindlessly for the Tyrant, not acting as just a womb or pair of hands or pretty face. It's a nuanced message, despite the epic (and therefore presumably black-and-white) nature of the whole book. The fourth section is the showdown with the Tyrant, a great deal of philosophizing, and an ending that I actually find more satisfying than that of Paradiso. I won't spoil it here, but it just works extremely well in conjunction with the themes of Descent as a whole. If you want to be challenged, if you want to think deep thoughts, if you want surreality and magic, pick up The Descent of Alette. For even more interesting reading from the author and her partner, you could also turn to The Scarlet Cabinet, which contains but actually predates the on-its-own publication of Descent.
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2010
K
Kent Shaw
Charlottesville, US
★★★★★ 5
A Contemporary Epic
Format: Paperback
I have a complicated relationship with most of the books I've read by Alice Notley. I admire her facility with the lyric, her ability to get just beneath a concept or sentiment using a very talk-y style so that I always feel like I'm with whatever speaker she's using, inside that mind and her mind all at once. This is a good kind of complication. It's one I yearn for with poems. The unpleasant complications are when I feel as though I'm just being subjected to her unedited notebook entries. Too much, too much, too much. It comes up especially with her book Mysteries of Small Houses. I mention these difficulties only to sharpen the accomplishment of The Descent of Alette. Like other reviewers, I feel the tonal similarities to Dante's Inferno. Which becomes a subversive allusion considering Alette seeks after a male Tyrant in order to destroy him, while Dante sought after his Beatrice out of desire. But I read and reread Alette, because Notley continually subverts patriarchal conventions in the book. I actually find I crave the speaker's intellect, and the mythic logic that gives the book its arc. I want it more. Yes, there are quotations around each fragment in the poems. I actually appreciate them for slowing my reading down, and for sharpening my focus on the use of Notley's language. And it's not just a stylistic tic, or something to be endured. It could actually be described as further subversion of The Tyrant Alette pursues.
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2011
R
Verified Purchase
Raquel Wilbon
Louisville, US
★★★★★ 2
Imagery and diction
Format: Paperback
This book was very challenging to read because everything was written in quotations however, it was intriguing as a different way of writing poetry.
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2020

recommand products