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Title

Scarlet tanager / Bernadette Mayer.

Author

Mayer, Bernadette.

Publication

New York : New Directions Book, 2005.

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Details

Description

117 pages; 22 cm

Note

• "New Directions paperbook original, NDP1015"--p. [4]

Contents

Sonnet welcome -- Epigrams -- Laundry & school epigrams -- Toy epigrams -- Stanzas in meditation -- Hiawatha persuasion -- Maple syrup sonnet -- Addendum to maple syrup sonnet -- Maple syrup sonnet -- Palm Sunday maple syrup poem -- Maple syrup again -- Sonnet on eating ice cream -- Stargnoc Caz! -- Tomorrow -- Wars -- On sleep -- To a politician -- The tree house aquarium cathedral room -- Large craft warnings -- To Admiral Scott about space -- "Well when you begin a poem" -- This is a problem-solving dream ... -- Paradelle -- Sunday April 13 -- Shooting in Brighton Beach, Washington -- Village of East Nassau -- Incidents report sonnet -- Sonnet de la main courante -- Sonnet of the current main man -- On gifts for grace -- D'un cadeau pour grace -- For grace as a cadet -- House & Bernadette -- Booze turns men into women -- Deaf amended return acknowledgee -- Fixation -- Thanksgiving -- A joke on love Sestina -- Daddy long legs -- Before sextet -- After sextet -- Head-shrinking hagiography -- Poem -- Homage to H & the Speedway Diner -- Intro -- The petty blues -- Hello Nizar -- Phil Magneteer Ne plus ultra July 23-26 -- Instructions for the woodstove we have -- Penile appellations -- Ingredients of Pyramid cigarettes -- The Tyvek monopoly -- Anti-daylight savings sonnet -- Places I miss in New York City -- I'm wearing my Tefillin -- As fine as melatonin -- Scrabble words -- The Bush blues -- Introduction to killing -- Grow up -- Words that rhyme with disease -- Prose turned into poem.

ISBN

0811215822 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2005005539

OCLC

• 58055269
• ocm58055269
• SCSB-5202953

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries