Scarlett Tanager

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Poetry

By Bernadette Mayer

Summary

In Scarlett Tanager, Bernadette Mayer weaves a tapestry of everyday life with her characteristic poetic flair. The narrative captures moments of beauty and mundanity, portraying insights into personal experiences and reflections on the world. Through vivid imagery and evocative language, the book invites readers to explore the intersections of thought, emotion, and the passage of time.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring themes of memory, place, and personal reflection through the lens of richly evocative poetry. Mayer’s language is both inventive and grounded, offering a tapestry of experiences and observations that challenge conventional narrative forms with a playful yet profound approach.

Scarlett Tanager

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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 her astonishing sonnets.

There are also curious translations of Mayer poems into joking, free-styling French, which are then re-translated back into English, landing somewhere extremely witty and quite some ways from the original. There is no one writing today who can touch Bernadette Mayer for sheer pleasure and throw-away brilliance.

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Scarlett Tanager by Bernadette Mayer has received praise for its ingenious observations and whimsical, yet profound, conclusions. The work is celebrated for its creative juxtapositions, inspired by a blend of language, movement, chance, and imagination, demonstrating Mayer's unique literary style.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780811215824

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 June 2005

Country: United States

Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 164g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Called "a consummate poet" by Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. A most prolific poet, her first book was published at the age of twenty-three. Many texts later she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau, New York. For many years Mayer lived and worked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she was the Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project from 1980-1984. Bernadette Mayer has received grants and awards from PEN American Center, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the NEA, The Academy of American Poets, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters.