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Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts.

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"Love and the seasons and the exigencies and opportunities of daily survival are the inevitable occasions of a body of work that is as radical as it is Horatian, able as little else is both to delight and instruct." -- Edwin Frank - Boston Review
"One of the most interesting, exciting, and open of late-20th-century experimental poets." -- Tom Clark - San Francisco Chronicle
"Bernadette Mayer is one of the most original writers of her generation… All her work is full of brilliant observation, humorous and sometimes astounding conclusions, and amazing juxtapositions inspired by linguistic associations, patterns of movement, chance, mathematics, whim, and imagination." -- Michael Lally - The Washington Post
"The richness of life and time as they happen to us in tiny explosions all the time are grasped and held up for us to view in this magnificent work of prose and poetry that teaches us at the end why 'no one knows why / Nothing happens.'"" -- John Ashbery

Midwinter Day

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    A Paperback by Bernadette Mayer

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      Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Published 8 October 1999
      ISBN-13 9780811214063
      978-0811214063
      ISBN-10 0811214060
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      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts.

      Trade Review
      "Love and the seasons and the exigencies and opportunities of daily survival are the inevitable occasions of a body of work that is as radical as it is Horatian, able as little else is both to delight and instruct." -- Edwin Frank - Boston Review
      "One of the most interesting, exciting, and open of late-20th-century experimental poets." -- Tom Clark - San Francisco Chronicle
      "Bernadette Mayer is one of the most original writers of her generation… All her work is full of brilliant observation, humorous and sometimes astounding conclusions, and amazing juxtapositions inspired by linguistic associations, patterns of movement, chance, mathematics, whim, and imagination." -- Michael Lally - The Washington Post
      "The richness of life and time as they happen to us in tiny explosions all the time are grasped and held up for us to view in this magnificent work of prose and poetry that teaches us at the end why 'no one knows why / Nothing happens.'"" -- John Ashbery

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