Research Catalog

Title

Works and days / Bernadette Mayer.

Author

Mayer, Bernadette

Publication

• New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.
• ©2016

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• New Directions Publishing
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

116 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Part springtime journal (?why are there thorns??), Works and Days meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times? passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens of poems considering the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas Browne, ?Go Away? welcome mats, books, floods (?never of dollar money?), the invention of words, local politics, friendships, property development, dogs, and Hesiod. Every page delights. As the poet herself notes: ?My name is Bernadette Mayer, sometimes / I am at the head of my class.? --

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; 1341

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• New Directions paperbook 1341.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

April 15 -- Walking like a Robin -- Soule Sermon -- April 14 a Monday -- April 15 -- April 16 -- April 17 -- The great outdoors -- April 18 -- Thin places -- April 19 -- April 20 -- I am a Coyote -- The first wasp of Spring -- April 21 -- Leg of lamb -- April 22 -- April 23 -- Dangerous solamente sense -- April 24 -- Why are there thorns? -- The "go away" welcome mat of Steve Levine -- Bewre! A grey cloud! -- The oyster barn -- Yield to opposing traffic -- Renaming things -- April 25 -- April 26 -- Enter if you dare -- April 27 -- James Schuyler's road show -- April 28 -- April 29 -- Local politics -- April 30 -- The lonely arc of whispers -- Tsatsawassa house and its front door -- May 1 -- May 2 -- May 3 -- May 4 -- May 5 -- May 6 -- We are only one person -- To have no -- May 7 -- May 8 -- May 9 -- May 10 -- May 11 -- May 12 -- Creepsville -- Poem for the benefit of me -- Sway bar blues -- Climage change = text messaging -- A new season -- Wilderness -- I am proactive ephemeral epiphytic residue -- May 13 -- May 14 -- May 15 -- May 16 -- Prehistorically in prehistoric times -- Waiting for Dave, Megan and Issa -- Theory of everything -- Beware of the killer dog -- Alice's driveway is a tree -- Grey -- Tsatsawassa blues -- Rainbows and mushrooms -- Here's a new kind of sonnet -- Cardinal flowers -- Could you bring the wine? -- You're boring a blue jay -- Sardines -- Bill Green -- Powdered Vermont cheddar and celtic sea salt -- First show hotline -- Oh what -- Eating the colors of a lineup of words -- Eclipse of the hunger moon -- Lunes by Philip Good -- Geology night sky -- May 18 -- May 23 -- May 24 -- I hate rye bread -- The sexual organs of the IRS -- Property is robbery property is robbery -- Report from the birdfeeder -- May 25 -- May 26 -- May 27 -- May 28 -- Tge rent strike of 1848 -- My love is like a red indicator -- Ode to wolf spiders -- Now is the time -- The uses of leaves -- May 29 -- May 30 -- May 31 -- Two from the golden bough -- Ox pinata -- Blinking slinky -- Two more from the golden bough -- The hand of glory -- The flooding -- Frigdusaphobia -- June 1 -- June 2 -- June 3 -- June 4 -- June 9 -- June 10 -- June 11 -- June 12 -- June 13 -- June 14 -- June 15 -- June 17 -- June 19 -- God did this -- June 20 -- June 21.

ISBN

• 9780811225175
• 0811225178

LCCN

^^2016007202

OCLC

• 923794361
• SCSB-12513941

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library