| Proper Name and Other Stories Contributor(s): Mayer, Bernadette (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811213250 ISBN-13: 9780811213257 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1996 Annotation: Proper Name collects for the first time the inimitable stories of Bernadette Mayer-- 'one of the most original writers of her generation.' |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95053735 |
| Series: New Directions Paperback; 824 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.23" W x 7.97" (0.38 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Proper Name collects for the first time the inimitable stories of Bernadette Mayer--one of the most original writers of her generation (The Washington Post). The nineteen narratives of Proper Name include My Excellent Novel, Ice Cube Epigrams, Essay: How Carefully Do We Tend? and Juan Gave Nora a Pomegranate. Mayer's structural inventions are terrific and unique. As Fanny Howe remarked in The American Book Review, In a language made up of idiom and lyricism, Mayer cancels the boundaries between prose and poetry. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mayer, Bernadette: - Called "a consummate poet" by Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. A most prolific poet, her first book was published at the age of twenty-three. Many texts later she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau, New York. For many years Mayer lived and worked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she was the Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project from 1980-1984. Bernadette Mayer has received grants and awards from PEN American Center, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the NEA, The Academy of American Poets, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. |