ETHICS OF SLEEP
by Bernadette Mayer
$15.00 | 106 pages | 2011 | ISBN: 978-0979070235
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Interview with Bernadette Mayer
In Ethics of Sleep, Mayer's poetic voice is once again at its very best as she conjures up some of the most pioneering and experimental explorations in American letters today. This ground-breaking masterwork springs from the netherland of her dreams; surely to be considered by readers and scholars alike in the same legendary company of Memory, Studying Hunger, and Midwinter Day as one of her more triumphant and dynamically accomplished works to date.
I’m leaving all my money to Bernadette Mayer because she’s the best writer, especially Ethics of Sleep.
—John Ashbery
We finally understand how the human brain works!
—John Lilly, M.D.
This is the best book I ever read.
—Robert Creeley
At last, the mythology of the 21st century.
—Franz Boas
I understand.
—Henri Michaux
Short of Eruditio Ex Memoria, this is Bernadette’s finest creation.
—Ted Berrigan
Bernadette Mayer
Bernadette Mayer’s poetry has been praised by John Ashbery as “magnificent.” Ed Sanders calls her a “wonderful visual gestalt.” Brenda Coultas heralds her as a master of “devastating wit.” Throughout the 1980s she was the Director of the Poetry Project in New York City, where she taught, as well as at the New School and the Naropa Insititute Summer Writing Program. She is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry, the most recent being Poetry State Forest, published by New Directions, 2008. Bernadette’s latest project (made possible by a grant from Creative Capital) is The Faces That Launched A Thousand Ships, a book of poetry and photographs featuring women named Helen from the city of Troy, New York, inspired by Bernadette’s knowledge of ancient Greece and the mythic character Helen of Troy.
Other books by Bernadette Mayer
Ceremony Latin. Angel Hair Press, 1964
Moving. Angel Hair Press, 1968
Story. 0 - 9 Books, 1971
The Basketball Article (with Anne Waldman). Oui, 1975
Memory. North Atlantic Books, 1975
Studying Hunger. Big Sky and Adventures in Poetry, 1976
Poetry. Kulchur Foundation, 1976
Eruditio Ex Memoria. Angel Hair Press, 1977
The Golden Book of Words. Angel Hair Press, 1978
L’Amour Fou (with Lewis Warsh). United Artist Books, 1981
Midwinter Day. Turtle Island Press, 1982
Utopia. United Artists, 1984
Mutual Aid. Mademoiselle de la Mole Press, 1985
Sonnets. Tender Buttons, 1989
The Art of Science Writing (with Dale Worsley). Teachers & Writers, 1989
The Formal Field of Kissing. Catchword Papers, 1990
A Bernadette Mayer Reader. New Directions, 1992
The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters. Hard Press, 1994
Proper Name and Other Stories, New Directions, 1996
Another Smashed Pinecone. United Artists Books, 1998
Two Haloed Mourners. Granary Books, 1998
Red Book in Three Parts, United Artists Books, 2002
Les poèmes qui m’ont rendue célèbre. Format Américain, 2004
Indigo Bunting. Zasterle, 2004
Scarlet Tanager. New Directions, 2005
What’s Your Idea of a Good Time? (with Bill Berkson). Tuumba Press, 2006
Poetry State Forest. New Directions, 2008
The Cave (with Clark Coolidge). Adventures in Poetry, 2009
