How can something published in 1968 be so 2021?It can because it's a lyric poem by Bernadette Mayer, a poet whose work may well define what I think is great about lyric poetry.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I take a look at this fabulous and very adult sonnet by one of the best American poets working still today.Rage? You bet! But in sonnet form.

How can something published in 1968 be so 2021? It can because it's a lyric poem by Bernadette Mayer, a poet whose work may well define what I think is great about lyric poetry. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I take a look at this fabulous and very adult sonnet by one of the best American poets working still today. Rage? You bet! But in sonnet form.

Bernadette Mayer, "[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up"

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, on this bookmarked journey through some of the best lyric poetry in English . I've got a passion for small, evocative poems. I'd like to share that with out--as well as those poems, of course! Together, we'll encounter the core things that make us human: love, the inner life, the emotions, our notion of purpose, and our relationship with the natural world around us. Join me. We humans are made for each other!

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Bernadette Mayer, "[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up"

Bernadette Mayer, "[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up"