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Scarlet TanagerBernadette Mayer Called magnificent by John Ashbery and consummate by Robert Creeley, Mayer mixes together delightful epigrams (What it means to be a mammal sexually its cute), long line free verse, and her astonishing sonnets. There are also curious, extremely witty translations of Mayer poems into joking, free style French, which are then re translated back into English, landing quite some ways from the original.

aangevuld met een uitgebreide editie van de verspreide gedichten (Het uitzoeken van een lezer) en de integrale tekst van De wanen

die van de herinnerde liefde

As autobiography

" but it also makes us complicit in the sheer implausibility of human life as we know it: "Yet geometry's no less in the head / than a series of jerks / as we emerge from the water wet / to find ourselves / butts of a formal if not rational / concern

Like its sister book

fairy tales

Ze debuteerde met Deutsches Roulette (1991)

want ‘er is tussen ons iets enorms aan de gang’

held in a book whose sinews and quiet unity drew me irrevocably and brought me close to my own maternal source

with carnations and colourful chrysanthemums

When My Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention – one that foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of Western mythologies and a deeply rooted cultural history

It matters knot / what circles your head

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