Bernadette Mayer

Bernadette Mayer (born May 12, 1945, Brooklyn, New York) is a poet and prose writer. In 1967 she received a BA from New School for Social Research. She has since edited the journal 0 TO 9 with Vito Acconci and the United Artists Press with Lewis Warsh. In 1995, she received a Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Publications

• Story, New York: 0 to 9 Press, 1968.
• Moving, New York: Angel Hair, 1971.
• Memory, Plainfield, VT: North Atlantic Books, 1976.
• Ceremony Latin (1964), New York: Angel Hair, 1975.
• Studying Hunger, New York: Adventures in Poetry/ Bolinas, CA: Big Sky, 1976.
• Poetry, New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1976.
• Eruditio Ex Memoria, Lenox, MA: Angel Hair, 1977.
• The Golden Book of Words, Lenox, MA: Angel Hair, 1978.
• Midwinter Day, Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island Foundation, 1982.
• Utopia, New York: United Artists Books, 1984.
• Mutual Aid (Mademoiselle de la Mole Press, 1985)
• Sonnets, New York: Tender Buttons, 1989.
• The Formal Field of Kissing, New York: Catchword Papers, 1990.
• A Bernadette Mayer Reader, New York: New Directions, 1992.
• The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press, 1994.
• Another Smashed Pinecone, New York: United Artists Books, 1998.
• Proper Name & other stories, New York: New Directions, 1996.
• Two Haloed Mourners: Poems, New York: Granary Books, 1998.
• Midwinter Day, New York: New Directions, 1999 (reprint of 1982 edition).
• Scarlet Tanager, New York: New Directions, 2005.
• Poetry State Forest, New York: New Directions, 2008.
• Ethics of Sleep, New Orleans: Trembling Pillow Press, 2011.
• Studying Hunger Journals, Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2011.

Sources

• Bernadette Mayer Papers
• Works by or about Bernadette Mayer in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• "Authority file". http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n86-848883.html. Retrieved 2009-06-14. 

Further reading

• Smith, Dinitia. "Fresh Look At A Syntax Skewer". The New York Times. 
• Burt, Stephen. "Mother Tongues". Village Voice (New York, NY). 
• Corbett, William (1989). "Review: Nine Brief Reviews by William Corbett". Harvard Book Review (13/14): 27–28. ISSN 10806067. 
• Bendall, Molly (1993). "Review: [untitled]". The Antioch Review 51 (3): 466. ISSN 00035769. 
• "'The Art of Self-Indulgence'". The Washington Post. 
• Burnham, Emily (2008-06-07). "Words processing; UMaine's Poetry of the 1970s conference dissects a decade". Bangor Daily News (Maine). 

External links

• Online Poetry Classroom profile
• Author's Page at EPC
• site at The Academy of American Poets
• Form's Life: An Exploration of the Works of Bernadette Mayer by Nada Gordon.
• Sound recordings of Bernadette Mayer