[New-Poetry] Bernadette Mayer

[Skip Fox]

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Grumman
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Bernadette Mayer

 

Many of us find a new one weekly. It's a great time to be alive as a writer.
I don't mind the silence, but I would like to see Bernadette Mayer hired by
a good university. (Of course, there is a down side for very deserving
writers who have to endure financial worries for decades. Before them I am
silent.)



Not to go way off topic, but I have  thought the same thing about Mayer--
i.e., why she isn't on the faculty of a really top notch University and
paid very, very well.   She is after all not only an extraordinarily
accomplished poet, she also has that rep for being a particularly gifted
teacher.  *sigh* 

Suzanne Burns


I thought she had clout as a first generation language poet.  That should
get her into a lot of universities.  Did she offend someone in language
poetry?

 

--Bob

 

 

 

More people would think about her as 2nd generation New York. She taught
workshops that Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews attended at St. Mark's
and turned him onto a lot of French theorists (I hear).  Her writing might
seem "Language-y" at times, but I guess she'd more closely identify with
Creeley's "I mean to mean" than a too non-referential poetics. But that's my
guess. But then this item, below, emphasizes more Mayer's interrogation of
language referentiality.

 

http://home.jps.net/~nada/mayer8.htm   (It might be restricted.)

 

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