Midwinter Day

Midwinter Day
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1999
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811214063

Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, in Lenox, Massachusetts. "Midwinter Day", as Alice Notley notes, "is an epic poem about a daily routine". 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".

Memory

Memory
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1975
Genre: Memory
ISBN:

Aaaaaaaaaaalice

Aaaaaaaaaaalice
Author: Jennifer Karmin
Publisher: Flim Forum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 9780979088834

Poetry. "Alice and anime, Asia and uncertainty, we do so want our sounds to make sense, our textual travels to have a guide, even if that guide is the white rabbit that will hide. Aaaaaaaaaaalice is the sound and sight of the disappearing rabbit, the one with a hat, the one who pops up with regular unpredictability whenever we go somewhere not here, and while words will swivel around us like our very own heads, making the unfamiliar familiar and the familiar unfamiliar, making no sense but nonsense and non-sense sense, like in this very text, what's moreover curious, as Karmin rightly notes, is that 'yesterday a man was walking'"--Vanessa Place.

Sonnets

Sonnets
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Sonnets, American
ISBN: 9780927920056

Poetry. Edited by Lee Ann Brown. SONNETS, first published in 1989 as Tender Buttons Number 1 is widely considered to be one of the most generative and innovative works of contemporary American poetry, radically rethinking the traditional sonnet form. This expanded 25th Anniversary edition includes a new preface by Bernadette Mayer, an editor's note by Tender Buttons Press publisher Lee Ann Brown, and a selection of previously unpublished archival material including the Skinny Sonnets, described as "Hypnogogic Word Playing in Reporters' Notebooks" which further expand our map of Bernadette Mayer's ground- breaking works of writing consciousness.

A Bernadette Mayer Reader

A Bernadette Mayer Reader
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780811212038

"She writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that she's read without a thought to stop. Best so this world is found changed." --Clark Coolidge

Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words

Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781581771350

"Bernadette Mayer is among the most influential poets of the late 20th century and to the present, with much of that interest falling to her earliest works. At the age of 15, in 1960, Mayer began writing and instantly with an incarnate directness and resource belying her youth. Over the next two decades, this precocious start would culminate in a body of writing extraordinary in its range and import. Even given that Mayer was moving in a New York milieu given to radical practice--as evidenced in the journal 0 to 9 she co-edited in the late '60s--these books in their collective force represent an explosion of poetic forms and investigation as profound and sustained as American poetry perhaps has seen"--Publisher's website, Nov. 20, 2015.

Scarlet Tanager

Scarlet Tanager
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811215824

Comprised almost entirely of never-before-collected poems, Scarlet Tanager is Bernadette Mayer's first collection of new work in nearly a decade.

Works and Days

Works and Days
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811225175

A brand spanking new collection, Works and Days is classic Bernadette Mayer: fresh, learned, exciting, and endlessly surprising

Milkweed Smithereens

Milkweed Smithereens
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2022-11-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811229238

A career-spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette Mayer 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 …

The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters

The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher: Hard Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1994
Genre: Letters
ISBN:

This one is all adventure in the event, a scaling of the exigent, an act of utter tell beyond the call. In contingency detail, at hypnagogic rates, she meets you in mind of a reckoning. Here is the endlessly inclusive Bernadette, the one from whom comes. And so at last these once secret letters are addressed to everyone. Clark Coolidge