Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. A prolific poet, her first book was published when she was twenty–three years old. Now, many texts later, she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau, New York.
Poetry. "It's OK that poetry won't save us from circumstance, or pave our road to what we're tempted to call Heaven, but it doesn't matter—because reading Bernadette Mayer's poetry is where I always want to be. Here, within the playfulness of her la...
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Poetry. Women's Studies. Introduction by Laynie Browne. A reissue of Bernadette Mayer's classic fugitive intergenre text. Endlessly inclusive, THE DESIRES OF MOTHERS TO PLEASE OTHERS IN LETTERS, first published in 1994 and long out of print, evokes ...
Poetry. Bernadette Mayer is among the most influential American poets of the late 20th century and the present, and much of that influence is based on her early books, previously available only in fragmentary form. As a Brooklyn high school student ...
Poetry. Edited by Lee Ann Brown. SONNETS, first published in 1989 as Tender Buttons Number 1 is widely considered to be one of the most generative and innovative works of contemporary American poetry, radically rethinking the traditional sonnet form...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In 1972 Bernadette Mayer began this project as an aid to psychological counseling, writing in parallel journals so that, as she wrote in one (in bed, on subways, at parties, etc.), her psychiatrist read the other. Using ...