Day

The nights let us have leaves

we have them the leaves have let us

& then they let us

smaller

have day

a day

About this feature

In this feature Michael Ruby and Sam Truitt present thirteen poems from Bernadette Mayer’s manuscript The Old Style Is Finding out Something about a Whole New Set of Possibilities, written between 1966 and 1970, along with a critical introduction to the work. This important early collection remained unpublished for forty-five years until its appearance in Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer (Station Hill Press, 2015), also edited by Ruby and Truitt.

Preface

Michael Ruby, Sam Truitt

Auditoriums
Bernadette Mayer
The General
Bernadette Mayer
Split Decision
Bernadette Mayer
Here's Gold
Bernadette Mayer
"The sun's in my eyes …"
Bernadette Mayer
Day
Bernadette Mayer
15 Times
Bernadette Mayer
Drivers Dividers
Bernadette Mayer
Complete Music of Webern (A Movie)
Bernadette Mayer
Design What Design Does
Bernadette Mayer
"From the Point of View of Four-Dimensional Space-Time Geometry ..."
Bernadette Mayer
Minnesota
Bernadette Mayer
The Invisible Structure
Bernadette Mayer

More on Jacket2

Those interested in learning more about Mayer’s early poetry will enjoy this transcription of her 1979 appearance on Susan Howe’s WBAI-FM radio program. Audio of the original broadcast, along with a wealth of recordings from the late 1960s to the present, is available on PennSound’s Bernadette Mayer author page.