Bernadette Mayer

New work from one of America's most original experimental poets. Comprised almost entirely of never-before-collected poems, Scarlett Tanager is Bernadette Mayer's first collection of new work in nearly a decade. Mayer, "one of the most original writers of her generation" (The Washington Post), has mixed together here delightful epigrams ("The Mammal Epigram": "Sexually / it's cute"), long-line free verse, and...

This 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 marvellous poet in every stage of her long and prolific writing life, but many fans most admire her...

Bernadette Mayer mixes together nature poems, pastiches, sonnets, prose poetry, and epigrams to create Poetry State Forest. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks.

Milkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems. The volume ranges from brand-new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from her Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early poems and sonnets found in the attic or rooted out in the UC San Diego archive. The world of nature and the pandemic loom large,...