Proper Name and Other Stories
Bernadette Mayer$11.86
$13.95
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."
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/17/1996
ISBN: 9780811213257
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.23w x 0.46d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/06/1996 pg. 74
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/1996 pg. 639