{"title":"Bernadette Mayer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBernadette Mayer\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique voice that blends poetic innovation with imaginative storytelling. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eMilkweed Smithereens\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Book of Words\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers into a world where language and perception intertwine, exploring the boundaries of narrative and form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the realms of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGeneral Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, Mayer’s writing captures both the everyday and the extraordinary with lyricism and wit. Her books are perfect for those seeking literature that challenges conventions while celebrating the richness of expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"scarlett-tanager-by-bernadette-mayer-9780811215824","title":"Scarlett Tanager","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew work from one of America's most original experimental poets. Comprised almost entirely of never-before-collected poems, \u003cem\u003eScarlett Tanager\u003c\/em\u003e is Bernadette Mayer's first collection of new work in nearly a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMayer, \"one of the most original writers of her generation\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e), has mixed together here delightful epigrams (\"The Mammal Epigram\": \"Sexually \/ it's cute\"), long-line free verse, and her astonishing sonnets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853294817516,"sku":"9780811215824","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22542203482476.jpg?v=1759195568"},{"product_id":"the-golden-book-of-words-by-bernadette-mayer-9780811239684","title":"The Golden Book of Words","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMayer was a marvellous poet in every stage of her long and prolific writing life, but many fans most admire her restless, powerful, sexy, and erudite early work. One of her signal elements is a certain deadpan wit, on full display here with classics such as \"Lookin' Like Areas of Kansas\" or \"What Babies Really Do,\" or the marvellous \"Essay\":\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI guess it's too late to live on the farm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI guess it's too late to move to a farm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI guess it's too late to start farming\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI guess farming is not in the cards now…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI guess farming is really out …\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI don't want to be a farmer but my mother was right\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI should never have tried to rise out of the proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnless I can convince myself as Satan argues with Eve\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThat we are among a proletariat of poets of all the classes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach ill-paid and surviving on nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOr on as little as one needs to survive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSteadfast as any farmer and fixed as the stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTenants of a vision we rent out endlessly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432922071276,"sku":"9780811239684","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811239684.jpg?v=1774766114"},{"product_id":"milkweed-smithereens-by-bernadette-mayer-9780811229227","title":"Milkweed Smithereens","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMilkweed Smithereens\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eCovid Diary\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSecond World of Nature\u003c\/em\u003e to early poems and sonnets found in the attic or rooted out in the UC San Diego archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe world of nature and the pandemic loom large, as in her poem \"The Lobelias of Fear\":\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e…but how will we, still alive, socialize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ein the winter? wrapped in bear skins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewe'll sit around pot-bellied stoves eating\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethe lobelias of fear left over from desperation,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003elast summer's woodland sunflowers and bee balm remind us of black\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003echerries eaten in a hurry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewhile the yard grows in the moonlight\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eshrinking like a salary …\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597008093420,"sku":"9780811229227","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/66b38735191af176337a198db9cc2ed6.jpg?v=1777955011"},{"product_id":"poetry-state-forest-by-bernadette-mayer-9780811217231","title":"Poetry State Forest","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBernadette Mayer mixes together nature poems, pastiches, sonnets, prose poetry, and epigrams to create \u003cem\u003ePoetry State Forest\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597519798508,"sku":"9780811217231","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5b0a2142db403211bc9739a7a60b0c06.jpg?v=1777958221"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/bernadette-mayer.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}