Bernadette Mayer

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".

Midwinter Day

Milkweed Smithereens

Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. "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!"

Studying Hunger

"Profiles of all the women named Helen in Troy, NY, with poems and images, mixing the classical with the ordinary and delightful intelligence with irreverence."--Publisher's website (viewed 12/20/2016).

The Helens of Troy, N.Y.

teaching Bernadette Mayer's sonnets & experiments

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Includes translations of poems by Catullus and Horace and two poems from the Greek.

Translations, Imitations and Epigrams

The Formal Field of Kissing

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

Works and Days

A reissue of Bernadette Mayer's classic fugitive intergenre text

The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters

Scarlet Tanager

Dodie Bellamy

Lisa Jarnot

Nancy Princenthal

Alice Notley

Anne Waldman

C. S. Giscombe

David Antin

Kerry E. Sherin

Janet Zweig

Ron Silliman

Memoir/anti-memoir

Rosemary Mayer

This is a children's book containing seven chapters. It is a mystery novel for young readers, and is the first book in the Clue Duo series. The book follows the story of a girl named Elisabeth VanKlewen and her best friend Eveline Brighton. Both girls share a desire to solve mysteries, and it is in this book that they get their first opportunity to do so, as they solve the case of the missing 'banana lizard'. At first the girls think that their case is a cold one, but in the end, there is a bright solution to the mystery. All in all, a wonderful book for young readers.

A Banana Lizard Is 'Spotted'

Eliot Weinberger

Dunya Mikhail

Lydia Davis

Susan Howe

Osama Alomar

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Alejandra Pizarnik

Forrest Gander

Hilda Doolittle

Nathaniel Tarn

Oliverio Girondo

Sylvia Legris

Collections 1-12 in New Directions' Poetry Pamphlet series

Poetry Pamphlets 1-12

Ceremony Latin (1964)

Poetry. New work from one of the best known contemporary American poets. "I have a book full of beds but I'm not scared/ Now I wont write the poem about sleeplessness since/ I cant sleep again even with Dash who sleeps so well/ & I wont about dreaming that sleep is 1/3 Egg St./ Or about dreaming I finally got some sleep, I wont write: Sleep, I cant come tonight" - from "On Sleep."

Indigo Bunting

Poems

Two Haloed Mourners

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."

Studying Hunger Journals

Poetry. "It's OK that poetry won't save us from circumstance, or pave our road to what we're tempted to call Heaven, but it doesn't matter—because reading Bernadette Mayer's poetry is where I always want to be. Here, within the playfulness of her language, is where consequences of daily living are histories of heart and mind. Poetry is in life and life is in Bernadette's poetry, and that's all the reassurance we need"—Kristin Prevallet.

Another Smashed Pinecone

Red Book in Three Parts

Vito Acconci

Published from 1967 to 1969 in seven limited mimeographed editions, "0 to 9" was edited by artist Vito Acconci and poet Bernadette Mayer. Seeking to explore the relationship between language and the page, Mayer and Acconci brought together the pioneers of 1960s experimental poetry and conceptual art. Sol LeWitt, Adrian Piper, Dan Graham, Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Robert Barry, Les Levine, Robert Smithson, Hannah Weiner, Emmett Williams, Dick Higgins, Yvonne Rainer, Aram Saroyan, Bernar Venet, Alan Sondheim and the editors themselves are but a few of the artists and writers who appeared in "0 to 9."~When considered as a whole, the chronological development of "0 to 9" provides a key understanding to, and perhaps the only exhaustive investigation of, the interstices between the concept-driven poetry of the late 60s and the pioneering formation of conceptual art. "0 to 9" was the first to publish the works of Dan Graham and Adrian Piper, as well as Sol LeWitt's "Sentences on Conceptual Art" and Jackson Mac Low's first poem series governed by chance operations, the "Biblical Poems."~"0 to 9: The Complete Magazine, 1967-1969" collects early works by more than 70 renowned artists and poets and provides a glimpse into the poetics of Vito Acconci.

The Complete Magazine : 1967-1969

0 to 9

Bernadette Mayer

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