Details

ISBN-10: 0811213250
ISBN-13: 9780811213257
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 06/17/1996
Dimensions: 7.97" L, 5.23" W, 0.46" H

Proper Name and Other Stories

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Overview

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 made up of idiom and lyricism, Mayer cancels the boundaries between prose and poetry.

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Details

ISBN-10: 0811213250
ISBN-13: 9780811213257
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 06/17/1996
Dimensions: 7.97" L, 5.23" W, 0.46" H
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