[Mayer] writes as if everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments.

Clark Coolidge
Included in the Be strong Bernadette bundle Get the bundle

A Bernadette Mayer Reader

by Bernadette Mayer

“Truly this is the best How To book I’ve read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world of real people in real times and places, a fact of love and loving use. She has impeccable insight and humor. She is a consummate poet no matter what’s for supper or who eats it. Would that all genius were as generous.” – Robert Creeley

Be strong Bernadette



Nobody will ever know



I came here for a reason



Perhaps there is a life here



Of not being afraid of your own heart beating



Do not be afraid of your own heart beating



Look at very small things with your eyes



& stay warm

From “The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica”

Paperback(published May, 01 1992)

ISBN
9780811212038
Price US
15.95
Page Count
162
Portrait of Bernadette Mayer

Bernadette Mayer

Contemporary American Poet

[Mayer] writes as if everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments.

Clark Coolidge

Bernadette Mayer is a poet of extraordinary inventiveness, erotic energy and challenge, and ironic intelligence.

Michael Palmer