Midwinter Day

Author: Bernadette Mayer

Midwinter Day, as Alice Notley noted, is an epic poem about a daily routine. A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: . . . a plain introduction to modes of love and reason/Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season/Now I've said this love it's all I can remember/Of Midwinter Day the twenty-second of December//Welcome sun, at last with thy softer light/That takes the bite from winter weather/And weaves the random cloth of life together/And drives away the long black night!

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/01/1999
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780811214063

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/26/1999 pg. 77
Library Journal 05/15/1999 pg. 132
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/1999 pg. 917

About the Author
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.