The Golden Book of Words (eBook)

Bernadette Mayer (Autor)

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2025
80 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
9780811239691 (ISBN)

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Here at last is a new edition of a famous early work by Bernadette Mayer, one of the most beloved, radical, and witty American poetsThis landmark early book (its original printing by Angel Hair Books was 750 copies, and they are now extremely rare) by the late great Bernadette Mayer is finally available again, both as a tribute and a joy to read. Mayer was a marvelous poet in every stage of her long and prolific writing life, but many fans most admire her restless, powerful, sexy, and erudite early work. One of her signal elements is a certain deadpan wit, on full display here with classics such as Lookin Like Areas of Kansas or What Babies Really Do, or the marvelous Essay:I guess its too late to live on the farmI guess its too late to move to a farmI guess its too late to start farmingI guess farming is not in the cards nowI guess farming is really out I dont want to be a farmer but my mother was rightI should never have tried to rise out of the proletariatUnless I can convince myself as Satan argues with EveThat we are among a proletariat of poets of all the classesEach ill-paid and surviving on nothingOr on as little as one needs to surviveSteadfast as any farmer and fixed as the starsTenants of a vision we rent out endlessly

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: american poet • Bernadette Mayer • Brooklyn • daily poetry • Essay • midwinter day • Poetry • poetry project • Sonnets • woman poet • Works and Days
• ISBN-13: 9780811239691 / 9780811239691