Works and days
By: Bernadette Mayer
Series: New Directions paperbook -- 1341; New Directions paperbook -- 1341.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation; New Directions
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780811225175
Work titles: Poems
Description: Part springtime journal (?why are there thorns??), Works and Days meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times? passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens of poems considering the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas Browne, ?Go Away? welcome mats, books, floods (?never of dollar money?), the invention of words, local politics, friendships, property development, dogs, and Hesiod. Every page delights. As the poet herself notes: ?My name is Bernadette Mayer, sometimes / I am at the head of my class.? --