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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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Sarah Cain: Enter the Center (Hardcover)
Sarah Cain; Edited by Ian Berry; Text written by Andy Campbell; Lauren Haynes; Contributions by Bernadette Mayer
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Endlessly inclusive, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in
Letters, first published in 1994 and long out of print, evokes the
complexity of real persons as it simultaneously reinvents multiple
genres: epistle, prose poem, and memoir. Written between 1979 and
1980 while pregnant with her third child, Mayer extends her
imaginative letters into meditations for us all on life as it is
lived in real time, with its responsibilities and manifold desires.
Fierce, lyrical, intimate, and wise, both new and familiar readers,
both mothers and non-mothers, will find this book beckoning again
and again to offer delicious writing, timely information,
consolation, and advice.
"Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a
daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from
awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning,
afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: ". . . a plain
introduction to modes of love and reason/Then to end I guess with
love, a method to this winter season/Now I've said this love it's
all I can remember/Of Midwinter Day the twenty-second of
December//Welcome sun, at last with thy softer light/That takes the
bite from winter weather/And weaves the random cloth of life
together/And drives away the long black night!"
"What a clear, insistent health there is here--as if the so-called
world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually
live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I've
read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world of real
people in real times and places, a fact of love and loving use. She
has impeccable insight and humor. She is a consummate poet no
matter what's for supper or who eats it. Would that all genius were
as generous." -Robert Creeley
Part springtime journal (“why are there thorns?”), Works and
Days meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season,
times’ passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also
collecting dozens of poems considering the Catholic Church, Sir
Thomas Browne, “Go Away” welcome mats, books, floods (“never
of dollar money”), the invention of words, local politics,
friendships, property development, dogs, and Hesiod. Every page
delights. As the poet herself notes: “My name is Bernadette
Mayer, sometimes / I am at the head of my class.”
This boxed set of the first twelve collections in the New
Directions Poetry Pamphlet series contains:
Osama Alomar's Fullbood Arabian H. D.'s Vale Ave Lawrence
Ferlinghetti's Blast Cries Laughter Forrest Gander's Eiko &
Koma Oliverio Girondo's Poems to Read on a Streetcar Susan Howe's
Sorting Facts, or 19 Ways of Looking at Chris Marker Sylvia
Legris's Pneumatic Antiphonal Bernadette Mayer's The Helens of
Troy, New York Dunya Mikhail's 15 Iraqi Poets Alejandra Pizarnik's
A Musical Hell Nathaniel Tarn's The Beautiful Contradictions Lydia
Davis & Eliot Weinberger's Two American Scenes
HIGHLIGHTS: This collaboration of Worsely and Mayer provides
numerous fun approaches to the writing process-from note-taking to
journal entries to essay completion. Many of the exercises use
concepts like logic, basic math, permutations, the Fibonacci scale,
and "Pascal's Triangle," as models on which to base poems, while
other exercises emphasize writing about natural science, in an
engaging way. Inspiring examples are provided, in the back of the
book, from Jane Goodall, Carl Sagan, Margaret Mead, Bertrand
Russell, Steven J. Gould, and Albert Einstein, among others. And an
annotated bibliography, serves as a list of recommended reading for
students and teachers alike.
New work from one of America's most original experimental poets.
Comprised almost entirely of never-before-collected poems, Scarlet
Tanager is Bernadette Mayer's first collection of new work in
nearly a decade. Mayer, "one of the most original writers of her
generation" (The Washington Post), has mixed together here
delightful epigrams ("The Mammal Epigram": "Sexually / it's cute"),
long-line free verse, and her astonishing sonnets. There are also
curious translations of Mayer poems into joking, free-styling
French, which are then re-translated back into English, landing
somewhere extremely witty and quite some ways from the original.
There is no one writing today who can touch Bernadette Mayer for
sheer pleasure and throw-away brilliance.
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In 1972 Bernadette Mayer began this
project as an aid to psychological counseling, writing in parallel
journals so that, as she wrote in one (in bed, on subways, at
parties, etc.), her psychiatrist read the other. Using colored pens
to "color-code emotions," she recorded dreams, events, memories,
and reflections in a language at once free-ranging and precise--a
work that creates its own poetics. She sought "a workable code, or
shorthand, for the transcription of every event, every motion,
every transition" of her own mind and to "perform this process of
translation" on herself in the interest of evolving an innovative,
inquiring language. STUDYING HUNGER JOURNALS registers this
intention within a body of poetry John Ashbery has called
"magnificent."
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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