Milkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and
indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand-new
nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from her
Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early poems and sonnets
found in the attic or rooted out in the UC San Diego archive. The
world of nature and the pandemic loom large, as in her "The
Lobelias of Fear": ...but how will we, still alive, socialize in
the winter? wrapped in bear skins we'll sit around pot-bellied
stoves eating the lobelias of fear left over from desperation, last
summer's woodland sunflowers and bee balm remind us of black
cherries eaten in a hurry while the yard grows in the moonlight
shrinking like a salary ...
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