Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words : The Collected Early Books of Bernadette Mayer by Bernadette Mayer read online ebook DOC, FB2
9781581771350 English 1581771355 Bernadette Mayer has been one of the most influential poets of the late 20th century and into the present. Her celebrated and revolutionary first books have long been out of print, available on the secondary market at high costs, by loan or via single-page facsimiles online at Eclipse. While these early books have played an oceanic role in the formation of generations of poets, they are difficult to secure, meaning that opportunities to read them, let along examine them critically, has proven challenging at best. Their operative life has been reduced to rumor and/or brief excerpts, such as New Directions' Bernadette Mayer Reader . This unfortunate gap in the continuum of American experimental poetry is bridged with the publication of Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The First Books of Bernadette Mayer . This multi-book collection includes Ceremony Latin; Red Book in Three Parts; Story; Moving; Poetry; Eruditio Ex Memoria; and The Golden Book of Words . ( Studying Hunger Journals , also from this period, was published in 2011 by Station Hill; Memory is forthcoming from Black Widow Press.) This new edition will be an important acquisition for students of contemporary poetry, scholars and libraries., Bernadette Mayer's revolutionary first books are long out of print, available in the caches of the secondary market at high costs, by loan or via single-page facsimiles online at Eclipse. While these early books have played an oceanic role in the formation of generations of poets, they are difficult to secure, meaning that opportunities to read, let along examine comprehensively, these books prove challenging at best, largely reducing their operative life to rumor and/or partial engagement, such as may be derived from New Directions' Bernadette Mayer Reader. This has left a woeful gap in the continuum of American experimental poetry, which Station Hill bridges with the publication of Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The First Books of Bernadette Mayer. This multi-book collection includes CEREMONY LATIN; RED BOOK IN THREE PARTS; STORY; MOVING; POETRY; ERUDITIO EX MEMORIA; and THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORDS. (Studying Hunger Journals, also from this period, was published in 2011 by Station Hill; Memory is forthcoming with Black Widow Press.), Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Bernadette Mayer has been one of the most influential poets of the late 20th century and into the present. Her celebrated and revolutionary first books have long been out of print, available on the secondary market at high costs, by loan orviasingle-pagefacsimiles online at Eclipse. While these early books have played an oceanic role in the formation of generations of poets, they are difficult to secure, meaning that opportunities to read them, let along examine them critically, has proven challenging at best. Their operative life has been reduced to rumor and/or brief excerpts, such as New Directions' "Bernadette Mayer Reader."This unfortunate gap in the continuum of American experimental poetry is bridged with the publication of "Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The First Books of Bernadette Mayer." This multi-book collection includes "Ceremony Latin; Red Book in Three Parts; Story; Moving; Poetry; Eruditio Ex Memoria; and The Golden Book of Words." ("Studying Hunger Journals," also from this period, was published in 2011 by Station Hill; "Memory" is forthcoming from Black Widow Press.) 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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 at the beginning of the 1960s, Mayer began writing with an embodied directness and resource belying her youth. Over the next two decades, this precocious start would culminate in a body of writing extraordinary in its range and impact. Even in a New York milieu given to radical practice-as evidenced in the journal 0 TO 9 that she co-edited in the late '60s-these books in their collective force represent an explosion of poetic forms and investigation as profound and sustained as any in contemporary poetry. The poems-some short, some book-length, written in the city as well as the country-are irreverent and sacred, jocular and aching, gentle and tough, erotic and reflective, rigorously fashioned and off the cuff-a poetic skill, intelligence and generosity scaling the heights.
9781581771350 English 1581771355 Bernadette Mayer has been one of the most influential poets of the late 20th century and into the present. Her celebrated and revolutionary first books have long been out of print, available on the secondary market at high costs, by loan or via single-page facsimiles online at Eclipse. While these early books have played an oceanic role in the formation of generations of poets, they are difficult to secure, meaning that opportunities to read them, let along examine them critically, has proven challenging at best. Their operative life has been reduced to rumor and/or brief excerpts, such as New Directions' Bernadette Mayer Reader . This unfortunate gap in the continuum of American experimental poetry is bridged with the publication of Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The First Books of Bernadette Mayer . This multi-book collection includes Ceremony Latin; Red Book in Three Parts; Story; Moving; Poetry; Eruditio Ex Memoria; and The Golden Book of Words . ( Studying Hunger Journals , also from this period, was published in 2011 by Station Hill; Memory is forthcoming from Black Widow Press.) This new edition will be an important acquisition for students of contemporary poetry, scholars and libraries., Bernadette Mayer's revolutionary first books are long out of print, available in the caches of the secondary market at high costs, by loan or via single-page facsimiles online at Eclipse. While these early books have played an oceanic role in the formation of generations of poets, they are difficult to secure, meaning that opportunities to read, let along examine comprehensively, these books prove challenging at best, largely reducing their operative life to rumor and/or partial engagement, such as may be derived from New Directions' Bernadette Mayer Reader. This has left a woeful gap in the continuum of American experimental poetry, which Station Hill bridges with the publication of Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The First Books of Bernadette Mayer. This multi-book collection includes CEREMONY LATIN; RED BOOK IN THREE PARTS; STORY; MOVING; POETRY; ERUDITIO EX MEMORIA; and THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORDS. (Studying Hunger Journals, also from this period, was published in 2011 by Station Hill; Memory is forthcoming with Black Widow Press.), Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Bernadette Mayer has been one of the most influential poets of the late 20th century and into the present. Her celebrated and revolutionary first books have long been out of print, available on the secondary market at high costs, by loan orviasingle-pagefacsimiles online at Eclipse. While these early books have played an oceanic role in the formation of generations of poets, they are difficult to secure, meaning that opportunities to read them, let along examine them critically, has proven challenging at best. Their operative life has been reduced to rumor and/or brief excerpts, such as New Directions' "Bernadette Mayer Reader."This unfortunate gap in the continuum of American experimental poetry is bridged with the publication of "Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The First Books of Bernadette Mayer." This multi-book collection includes "Ceremony Latin; Red Book in Three Parts; Story; Moving; Poetry; Eruditio Ex Memoria; and The Golden Book of Words." ("Studying Hunger Journals," also from this period, was published in 2011 by Station Hill; "Memory" is forthcoming from Black Widow Press.) This new edition will be an important acquisition for students of contemporary poetry, scholars and libraries. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: "Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat: yes; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family: "Calibri,""sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;} ", 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 at the beginning of the 1960s, Mayer began writing with an embodied directness and resource belying her youth. Over the next two decades, this precocious start would culminate in a body of writing extraordinary in its range and impact. Even in a New York milieu given to radical practice-as evidenced in the journal 0 TO 9 that she co-edited in the late '60s-these books in their collective force represent an explosion of poetic forms and investigation as profound and sustained as any in contemporary poetry. The poems-some short, some book-length, written in the city as well as the country-are irreverent and sacred, jocular and aching, gentle and tough, erotic and reflective, rigorously fashioned and off the cuff-a poetic skill, intelligence and generosity scaling the heights.