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Proper Name & Other Stories (Paperback, New)
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Proper Name & Other Stories (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R338
Discovery Miles 3 380
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Twenty-one witty, elliptical metafictions, many of them prose
poems, by an accomplished experimentalist whose very titles - e.g.,
"You Don't Aggressively Soothe the Butter" - can make you laugh out
loud. Ingenious play with language and meaning, fresh coinages,
unconventional spacing and punctuation, and truly weird free
associations ("Wait, I'm mincing words. What pie?") are constant
presences in such charming pieces as "We Plow the Roads" (a
hilarious riff on surviving New England winters) and "My Excellent
Novel" (a surrealist view of female friendship that recalls Jane
Bowles at her daftest and brightest). There's some self-indulgence,
but when Mayer is at her frequent best - as in her word-portraits
of a suburban mother's Molly Bloom-like fantasies and fears
("Agoraphobia" and "0 to 19") - she blends eccentric content with
rigorous verbal (and virtually musical) notation reminiscent of her
obvious exemplar, Gertrude Stein. (Kirkus Reviews)
Proper Name collects for the first time the inimitable stories of
Bernadette Mayer-"one of the most original writers of her
generation" (The Washington Post). The nineteen narratives of
Proper Name include "My Excellent Novel," "Ice Cube Epigrams,"
"Essay: How Carefully Do We Tend?" and "Juan Gave Nora a
Pomegranate." Mayer's structural inventions are terrific and
unique. As Fanny Howe remarked in The American Book Review, "In a
language made up of idiom and lyricism, Mayer cancels the
boundaries between prose and poetry."
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