Milkweed Smithereens Ian PattersonBernadette Mayer A career spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette Mayer, 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.
and collect their leavings: skin
met het vol lof onthaalde wie was ik
where familiarity meets strangeness and despair becomes a kind of celebration
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2015 and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2015
' A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as 'charged aural colony' and 'primal interconnection
an afternoon or evening in Paris
and radiates out into the space between them
encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world
he published Beat poets such as Gregory Corso
enigmatic and vulgar in equal measure
As Juan Gelman once wrote
Philip Huff dicht met een scherp oog en een warm hart
