Ebook {Epub PDF} Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer

Writer and artist Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day is a long poem set over, and supposedly written in, one day, Decem, carrying within it the deliberate echoes of similar texts Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Joyce’s Ulysses. Mayer subverts the tradition of the epic poem, instead of telling a conventionally heroic tale she examines her daily life as a poet and mother who, with her /5. Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on Decem, at Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. "Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: " a plain. Books Memory Media Donate Memory Media Donate Books Memory Media Donate Memory Media Donate.

Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on Decem, at Main Street, in Lenox, Massachusetts. "Midwinter Day", as Alice Notley notes, "is an epic poem about a daily routine". Bernadette Mayer was born on , in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA from the New School for Social Research in She is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including: Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer (Station Hill Press, ), Poetry State Forest (New Directions, ), Scarlet Tanager (New Directions, ), Two. Midwinter Day [excerpt] Poem by Bernadette Mayer. Read Bernadette Mayer poem:I write this love as all transition As if I'm in instinctual flight, a small lady bug.

Books Memory Media Donate Memory Media Donate Books Memory Media Donate Memory Media Donate. Mayer again places the story of their life in direct descent from the stories and epics of the past told by the poets; Midwinter Day reflects the story of their lives and Mayer points out that as long as she has known Lewis, she has wanted to write this book. In a sense the creation of this poem mirrors the creation of their lives together, and Mayer implies that the creation of poetry runs parallel with the actual living of life. Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on Decem, at Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. "Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: " a plain introduction to modes of love and reason/Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season/Now I.