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Proper name & other stories
- Title
- Proper name & other stories / Bernadette Mayer.
- Author
- Mayer, Bernadette.
- Publication
- New York : New Directions, ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Berg Coll 22-1259 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 152 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Stories by an experimental writer. In A Non-Unified Field Theory of Love and Landlords, one reads: "Tiny space dust and space grains of sand rain / Down on the earth by the millions each minute / And interplanetary and interstellar comets ast / Eroids and meteoroids are more numerous than a / Ll the fish in all the seas of the world and y / Ou might discover a comet and become famous ..."
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; 825
- NDP825
- Alternative Title
- Proper name and other stories
- Proper name
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Note
- "A New Directions book" -- title page.
- "Celebrating 60 years of publishing for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
- Indexed In (note)
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
- Binding (note)
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-1259 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini Severance; cover collage/painting by Joe Brainard.
- Contents
- Agoraphobia -- Ice cube epigrams -- My excellent novel -- Farmers exchange -- Two haloed mourners -- We plow the roads -- Noun pile-up of travel on M15 bus -- Juan gave Nora a pomegranate -- You don't aggressively soothe the butter -- Primitive Road -- A non-unified theory of love and landlords -- The landlord quit to write a book -- Proper name -- Is Summer there? -- Elegy -- Attention to Spring -- 0 to 19 -- Essay: How carefully do we tend? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-1259
- ISBN
- 0811213250
- 9780811213257
- LCCN
- 95053735
- OCLC
- 33983767
- Author
- Mayer, Bernadette.
- Title
- Proper name & other stories / Bernadette Mayer.
- Imprint
- New York : New Directions, ©1996.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions paperbook ; 825NDP825
- Indexed In:
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 146
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-1259 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini Severance; cover collage/painting by Joe Brainard. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-1259 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
- Added Author
- Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Frezzolini, Sylvia, cover designer.Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994, artist.New Directions Publishing, publisher.Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.Javitch, Daniel, donor.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
- Spine Title
- Proper name
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-1259