Milkweed Smithereens

by Bernadette Mayer

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
...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081122922X
• ISBN13: 9780811229227
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"