Research Catalog

Title

Eating the colors of a lineup of words : the first books of Bernadette Mayer / Bernadette mayer.

Author

Mayer, Bernadette

Publication

Barrytown, NY : Station Hill of Barrytown 2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Truitt, Sam.
• Ruby, Michael
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

450 pages : illustrations; 26cm

Summary

"Bernadette Mayer is among the most influential poets of the late 20th century and to the present, with much of that interest falling to her earliest works. At the age of 15, in 1960, Mayer began writing and instantly with an incarnate directness and resource belying her youth. Over the next two decades, this precocious start would culminate in a body of writing extraordinary in its range and import. Even given that Mayer was moving in a New York milieu given to radical practice--as evidenced in the journal 0 to 9 she co-edited in the late '60s--these books in their collective force represent an explosion of poetic forms and investigation as profound and sustained as American poetry perhaps has seen"--Publisher's website, Nov. 20, 2015.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• American poetry > 20st century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Note

• Poems, selections

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ceremony Latin (1964) -- Red book in three parts -- Story -- The old style is finding out something about a whole new set of possibilities -- Moving -- Poetry -- Eruditio ex memoria -- The golden book of words.

ISBN

• 9781581771350
• 1581771355

OCLC

• 909581115
• SCSB-10957613

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library