Milkweed Smithereens -- Bernadette Mayer, Paperback

Milkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand-new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from her Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early poems and sonnets found in the attic or rooted out in the UC San Diego archive. The world of nature and the pandemic loom large, as in her "The Lobelias of Fear"

...but how will we, still alive, socialize
in the winter? wrapped in bear skins
we'll sit around pot-bellied stoves eating
the lobelias of fear left over from desperation,
last summer's woodland sunflowers and bee balm remind us of black
cherries eaten in a hurry
while the yard grows in the moonlight
shrinking like a salary ...

Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780811229227