Scarlett Tanager: Poetry

by Bernadette Mayer

New work from one of America's most original experimental poets. Comprised almost entirely of never-before-collected poems, Scarlet Tanager is Bernadette Mayer's first collection of new work in nearly a decade. Mayer, "one of the most original writers of her generation" (The Washington Post), has mixed together here delightful epigrams ("The Mammal Epigram" "Sexually / it's cute"), long-line free verse, and her astonishing sonnets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811215822
• ISBN13: 9780811215824
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"