Scarlet Tanager PA

by Mayer,Bernadette

• ISBN13: 9780811215824
• ISBN10: 0811215822
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

New work from one of America's most original experimental poets. Comprised almost entirely of never-before-collected poems, Scarlet Tanager is Bernadette Mayer's first collection of new work in nearly a decade. Mayer, "one of the most original writers of her generation" (The Washington Post), has mixed together here delightful epigrams ("The Mammal Epigram": "Sexually / it's cute"), long-line free verse, and her astonishing sonnets. There are also curious translations of Mayer poems into joking, free-styling French, which are then re-translated back into English, landing somewhere extremely witty and quite some ways from the original. There is no one writing today who can touch Bernadette Mayer for sheer pleasure and throw-away brilliance.

Table of Contents

Sonnet Welcome	1	(1)
Epigrams	2	(18)
Laundry & School Epigrams	20	(3)
Toy Epigrams	23	(2)
Stanzas in Meditation	25	(1)
Hiawatha Persuasion	26	(1)
Maple Syrup Sonnet	27	(1)
Addendum to Maple Syrup Sonnet	28	(1)
Maple Syrup Sonnet	29	(1)
Palm Sunday Maple Syrup Poem	30	(1)
Maple Syrup Again	31	(1)
Sonnet on Eating Ice Cream	32	(1)
Stargnoc Caz!	33	(1)
Tomorrow	34	(1)
Wars	35	(2)
On Sleep	37	(4)
To a Politician	41	(1)
The Tree House Aquarium Cathedral Room	42	(3)
Large Craft Warnings	45	(1)
To Admiral Scott about Space	46	(5)
``Well When You Begin a Poem''	51	(1)
This Is a Problem-Solving Dream...	52	(15)
Paradelle	67	(1)
Sunday April 13	68	(1)
Shooting in Brighton Beach, Washington	69	(1)
Village of East Nassau	70	(3)
Incidents Report Sonnet	73	(1)
Sonnet de la main courante	74	(1)
Sonnet of the Current Main Man	75	(1)
On Gifts for Grace	76	(1)
Dun cadeau pour grace	77	(1)
For Grace as a Cadet	77	(1)
House & Bernadette	78	(4)
Booze Turns Men into Women	82	(1)
Dear Amended Return Acknowledgee	83	(1)
Fixation	84	(1)
Thanksgiving	85	(2)
A Joke on Love Sestina	87	(2)
Daddy Long Legs	89	(1)
Before Sextet	90	(1)
After Sextet	91	(1)
Head-Shrinking Hagiography	92	(1)
Poem	93	(1)
Homage to H & The Speedway Diner	94	(1)
Intro	95	(2)
The Petty Blues	97	(1)
Hello Nizar	98	(1)
Phil Magneteer Ne Plus Ultra July 23-26	99	(1)
Instructions for the Woodstove We Have	100	(1)
Penile Appellations	101	(1)
Ingredients of Pyramid Cigarettes	102	(1)
The Tyvek Monopoly	103	(1)
Anti-Daylight Savings Sonnet	104	(1)
Places I Miss in New York City	105	(1)
I'm Wearing My Tefillin	106	(2)
As Fine as Melatonin	108	(1)
Scrabble Words	109	(1)
The Bush Blues	110	(1)
Introduction to Killing	111	(1)
Grow Up	112	(1)
Words that Rhyme with Disease	113	(1)
Prose Turned into Poem	114