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63. Midwinter Day.
I know the rest of the night will be as devoted to work as love as I’m now
resting in this expensive sentence and in the end I’ll spend it fast writing
to you anyway, addressing you and a solution or night beginning like a letter,
just a few words more freely seeing everything more clearly than the rest of
life and love tends to be like windows facing mostly south but surrounding us,
I’m thinking of you.
Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day is a book-length poem entirely written on
December 22, 1978. It documents her day—early morning dreams, midday chores
with her toddlers, late night all-night writing sessions with her partner—in a
panoply of poetic modes. Chris and Suzanne read the poem alongside some of the
other books they’ve read this year, and consider Mayer’s works and days.
Show Notes.
Bernadette Mayer: Midwinter Day.
[Bookshop.]
Other books by Bernadette Mayer: Memory. Studying
Hunger Journals. Eating the Colors of a Lineup of
Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer.
Sonnets. A Bernadette Mayer
Reader. The Helens of Troy,
NY. Milkweed Smithereens.
0 to 9: The Complete Magazine, 1967–1969.
Bernadette Mayer’s pages at the Poetry
Foundation and
PennSound.
Some of her early works can be found at
Eclipse.
Obituaries in the New York
Times
and Artforum.
Our episodes on Times Square Red, Times Square
Blue,
Ulysses, Mrs.
Dalloway, the Metaphysical
Poets, the
Iliad, and The Waste
Land.
Catullus.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The House of Fame.
Ted and Alice are Ted Berrigan and Alice
Notley.
John Donne: A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s
Day.
Sonnet [You jerk you didn’t call me
up].
Bernadette Mayer’s Writing
Experiments.
Next: Sadeq Hedayat: Blind Owl.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and hang
out with us in a private Discord.
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By Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Chris Piuma
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I know the rest of the night will be as devoted to work as love as I’m now
resting in this expensive sentence and in the end I’ll spend it fast writing
to you anyway, addressing you and a solution or night beginning like a letter,
just a few words more freely seeing everything more clearly than the rest of
life and love tends to be like windows facing mostly south but surrounding us,
I’m thinking of you.
Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day is a book-length poem entirely written on
December 22, 1978. It documents her day—early morning dreams, midday chores
with her toddlers, late night all-night writing sessions with her partner—in a
panoply of poetic modes. Chris and Suzanne read the poem alongside some of the
other books they’ve read this year, and consider Mayer’s works and days.
Show Notes.
Bernadette Mayer: Midwinter Day.
[Bookshop.]
Other books by Bernadette Mayer: Memory. Studying
Hunger Journals. Eating the Colors of a Lineup of
Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer.
Sonnets. A Bernadette Mayer
Reader. The Helens of Troy,
NY. Milkweed Smithereens.
0 to 9: The Complete Magazine, 1967–1969.
Bernadette Mayer’s pages at the Poetry
Foundation and
PennSound.
Some of her early works can be found at
Eclipse.
Obituaries in the New York
Times
and Artforum.
Our episodes on Times Square Red, Times Square
Blue,
Ulysses, Mrs.
Dalloway, the Metaphysical
Poets, the
Iliad, and The Waste
Land.
Catullus.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The House of Fame.
Ted and Alice are Ted Berrigan and Alice
Notley.
John Donne: A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s
Day.
Sonnet [You jerk you didn’t call me
up].
Bernadette Mayer’s Writing
Experiments.
Next: Sadeq Hedayat: Blind Owl.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and hang
out with us in a private Discord.
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