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Milkweed Smithereens

By (author) Bernadette Mayer

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Milkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand-new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from her Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early poems and sonnets found in the attic or rooted out in the UC San Diego archive. The world of nature and the pandemic loom large, as in her “The Lobelias of Fear”: …but how will we, still alive, socialize in the winter? wrapped in bear skins we’ll sit around pot-bellied stoves eating the lobelias of fear left over from desperation, last summer’s woodland sunflowers and bee balm remind us of black cherries eaten in a hurry while the yard grows in the moonlight shrinking like a salary …

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Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published date | 18 Nov 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 96
Dimensions | 231 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 143g
ISBN | 978-0-8112-2922-7
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BISAC | poetry / general


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