Proper Name and Other Stories

by Bernadette Mayer

Proper Name collects for the first time the inimitable stories of Bernadette Mayer--"one of the most original writers of her generation" (The Washington Post).

The nineteen narratives of Proper Name include "My Excellent Novel," "Ice Cube Epigrams," "Essay: How Carefully Do We Tend?" and "Juan Gave Nora a Pomegranate." Mayer's structural inventions are terrific and unique. As Fanny Howe remarked in The American Book Review, "In a language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811213250
• ISBN13: 9780811213257
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"