Bernadette Mayer

Bernadette Mayer (born May 12, 1945) in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a poet and prose writer. In 1967 she received a BA from New School for Social Research. She has since edited the journal "0 TO 9" with Vito Acconci and the "United Artists Press" with Lewis Warsh. She is also known for her wonderful dancing.

Publications

*"Story", New York: 0 to 9 Press, 1968.
*"Moving", New York: Angel Hair, 1971.
*"Memory", Plainfield, VT: North Atlantic Books, 1976.
*"Ceremony Latin" (1964), New York: Angel Hair, 1975.
*"Studying Hunger", New York: Adventures in Poetry/ Bolinas, CA: Big Sky, 1976.
*"Poetry", New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1976.
*"Eruditio Ex Memoria", Lenox, MA: Angel Hair, 1977.
*"The Golden Book of Words", Lenox, MA: Angel Hair, 1978.
*"Midwinter Day", Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island Foundation, 1982.
*"Utopia", New York: United Artists Books, 1984.
*"Mutual Aid" (Mademoiselle de la Mole Press, 1985)
*"Sonnets", New York: Tender Buttons, 1989.
*"The Formal Field of Kissing", New York: Catchword Papers, 1990.
*"A Bernadette Mayer Reader", New York: New Directions, 1992.
*"The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters", West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press, 1994.
*"Another Smashed Pinecone", New York: United Artists Books, 1998.
*"Proper Name & other stories", New York: New Directions, 1996.
*"Two Haloed Mourners: Poems", New York: Granary Books, 1998.
*"Midwinter Day", New York: New Directions, 1999 (reprint of 1982 edition).
*"Scarlet Tanager", New York: New Directions, 2005.

ources

* [http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0420a.html Bernadette Mayer Papers]

External links

* [http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=767 Online Poetry Classroom profile]
* [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/mayer/ Author's Page at EPC]
* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/748 site at The Academy of American Poets]
* [http://home.jps.net/~nada/mayer1.htm Form's Life: An Exploration of the Works of Bernadette Mayer] by Nada Gordon who explains: "This thesis was written, although not without passionate attention, as an academic requirement in 1986"
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