A Bernadette Mayer Reader

Mayer, Bernadette

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from Ceremony Latin (1964) xi from Story Story is a novella-length work in which stories interweave in a diamond-shaped structure so that at its center fourteen stories are going on simultaneously. Each section is given a title that is a form of story-telling 1(5) from Poetry and early poems Corn 6(1) Pope John 7(1) Index 8(1) Yellow-Orange 9(1) Laura Cashdollars 10(1) Francois Villon Follows the Thin Lion 11(1) Tapestry 12(1) Thick 13(1) Poem 14(2) An Ancient Degree 16(1) Swan Silvertones 17(2) America 19(1) The Port 20(1) Dante 21(1) Counterhatch 22(2) It Moves Across 24(2) Sonnet: ``name address date'' 26(1) X On Page 50 at half-inch intervals 27(2) The Red Rose Doesn't, The Rose Is Red Does 29(1) Gay Full Story 30(2) The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica 32(2) from Moving Moving is a prose book written while living for three seasons in the woods of the Northeast, its intention being to write only when it seemed absolutely necessary. Moving includes contributions from Ed, Rosemary, Grace, Paul, Mr. Murphy, Tom, Larry, Lewis, Hannah, Neil, two Annes, two Kathleens, Jonathan, Milt and others 34(3) from Memory Memory is a journal of the month of July 1971 based on notes and writings, and a series of 1,116 slides (36 pictures shot every day). Memory was commissioned by Holly Solomon and exhibited in 1972 in her 98 Greene Street gallery in the form of a 4' x 48' chronological display of snapshots made from the slides, accompanied by an eight-hour tape of the text 37(5) from Studying Hunger Studying Hunger consists of two lectures culled from the 400-page Studying Hunger Journals, an experiment in recording states of consciousness 42(5) from The Golden Book of Words Eve of Easter 47(2) Lookin Like Areas of Kansas 49(2) Essay 51(2) Carlton Fisk Is My Ideal 53(2) The End of the Human Reign on Bashan Hill 55(2) What Babies Really Do 57(3) Instability (Weather) 60(1) Very Strong February 61(2) from Midwinter Day Midwinter Day is a 120-page work in prose and poetry written on December 22, 1978, from notes, tapes, photographs, and memory. It divides the day into six parts: dreams, morning, noontime, afternoon, evening, and night 63(5) from The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters is a series of letters never sent, written to unidentified friends, acquaintances, political figures, and poets over a nine-month period and ending with the birth of a baby. It is dedicated to Margaret DeCoursey 68(4) from Utopia Utopia is a traditional utopia dedicated to Grace Murphy and written with the help of Bob Holman, Bill Berkson, Huang O, Rosemary Mayer, Anne Waldman, Rochelle Kraut, Hannah Weiner, Joe Brainard, Charles Bernstein, John Fisk, Lorna Smedman, Lewis Warsh, Anne Rower, Greg Masters, Peggy DeCoursey, and others. It contains a utopian copyright, an Imprimatur from the Archbishop of Nowhere, and an index 72(5) from Mutual Aid Concluding Unscientific Postscript 77(2) Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes 79(2) A Woman I Mix Men Up 81(2) Eight Blocks 83(1) The Garden 84(3) from Sonnets Sonnets is a series of seventy-two poems based on that form and dedicated to Rosemary Mayer Sonnet: ``Love is a babe . . .'' 87(1) Sonnet: ``It would be nice . . .'' 88(1) Warren Phinney 89(1) Holding the Thought of Love 90(1) Sonnet: ``I am supposed to think . . .'' 91(1) A Chinese Breakfast 92(1) Sonnet: ``You jerk you didn't call me . . .'' 93(1) Sonnet: ``Other than what's gone on . . .'' 94(1) We Eat Out Together 95(1) Homeopathic Busyness 96(1) Incidents Report Sonnet 97(1) Incidents Report Sonnet #2 98(1) Incidents Report Sonnet #5 99(1) Sonnet: ``ash . . .'' 100(1) Sonnet We Are Ordinary C'mere 101(1) Sonnet: ``To perform for you . . .'' 102(1) Sonnet: ``Beauty of songs . . .'' 103(1) Incandescent War Poem Sonnet 104(1) Clap Hands 105(1) Sonnet: ``You read about Uranus . . .'' 106(1) The Phenomenon of Chaos 107(1) from The Formal Field of Kissing The Formal Field of Kissing is a book of translations, imitations, and epigrams from the work of ancient Greek and Latin poets, especially Catullus Catullus #48 108(1) Catullus #99 109(1) After Catullus and Horace 110(1) Large Imitation Classical Lune 111(2) Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33 113(1) Catullus #67 114(3) Two from the Greek Anthology 117(1) New Poems The Incorporation of Sophia's Cereal 118(1) Max Carries the One 119(1) Ode on 120(1) ``First turn to me . . .'' 121(3) I Am Told I Must Bomb the Tappan Zee Bridge 124(1) scifi lee ann 125(1) Sonnet: ``Suck me my virgin . . .'' 126(1) Marie You Must Meet Cristina at the Music School Tomorrow and Not at Her Home 127(2) I Want to Talk Now about Reason, Riddle 129(1) I Wish You Were Up Late, Gerard 130(1) The Guild 131(1) Death Is a Cambric Fabric 132(2) Sonnet: ``a little tiny poem . . .'' 134(1) The Ballad of Theodore 135(2) Sonnet: ``Swell is the attribute . . .'' 137(1) Mums 138(1) Failures in Infinitives 139(3) Say Goodbye to Legacy 142(2) Beginning Middle End 144(1) Experimentation in Rubrics 145(1) Manicatriarchic Sonnet 146(1) Marie Makes Fun of Me at the Shore 147(1) Acknowledgments 148
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Mayer, Bernadette
Titel
A Bernadette Mayer Reader
Uitgever
W W Norton & Co Inc
Jaar
1992
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
148
Gewicht
218 gr
EAN
9780811212038
Afmetingen
210 x 140 x 13 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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