“One of the most interesting, exciting, and open of late-20th century experimental poets.”—Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle
Bernadette Mayer mixes together nature poems, pastiches, sonnets, prose poetry, and epigrams to create Poetry State Forest.Book Description
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In Mayers 21st collection, the prolific New York School veteran mixes prose poems, pastorals, sonnets, epigrams and dream catalogues to create an unruly but characteristically joyous book of everyday transcendence. As always, the pleasures of Mayers poetry come not only from her calculatedly casual voice and her artful restraint but especially her messy insistence on play and her explorations of what is and is not literature. [I] write unbalanced poetry, she says. As a 61-year old poet, she writes in Summer Solstice 2006, my aims havent much changed. Yet this late work is elegiac and defiant while still quotidian, colloquial and self-reflective, as poems with titles like Winner of the Bad Poem Contest and Inky Dinky Parlez-Vous: Variations on Sponge Bob Square Pants attest. After her many incarnations as ingenue, performance artist, teacher, mother, shaman and poetry rabble-rouser, Mayers become something of a wise woman of letters. Sometimes, she writes, it seems like every-/things a mistake. Readers will wish more people could make mistakes like these. (Nov.)
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In Mayer's hands customary topics feel warm and fresh as baked bread. (Todd Pederson - Rain Taxi )
The richness of life & time as they happen to us in tiny explosions all the time are grasped and held up for us to view in [her] magnificent work. (John Ashbery )
Mayer's work is marked with Dorothy Parker's bite and bawdiness and Gertrude Stein's inventive discourse. (The Antioch Review )
All her work is full of brilliant observations, humorous and sometimes astounding conclusions, and amazing juxtapositions inspired by linguistic associations, patterns of movement, chance, mathematics, whim, and imagination. (Michael Lally - The Washington Post )
It offers warm welcome: it comes straight out of the ground and is loaded with good humor. (Jason Morris - The Guardian )
The richness of life & time as they happen to us in tiny explosions all the time are grasped and held up for us to view in [her] magnificent work. (John Ashbery )
Mayer's work is marked with Dorothy Parker's bite and bawdiness and Gertrude Stein's inventive discourse. (The Antioch Review )
All her work is full of brilliant observations, humorous and sometimes astounding conclusions, and amazing juxtapositions inspired by linguistic associations, patterns of movement, chance, mathematics, whim, and imagination. (Michael Lally - The Washington Post )
It offers warm welcome: it comes straight out of the ground and is loaded with good humor. (Jason Morris - The Guardian )
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