We Eat Out Together
"We Eat Out Together" by Bernadette Mayer, from A Bernadette Mayer Reader. Copyright © 1968 by Bernadette Mayer. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Source: A Bernadette Mayer Reader (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1992)
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Poet Bernadette Mayer b. 1945
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Language Poetry
Subjects Cities & Urban Life, Love, Social Commentaries, Activities, Class, Relationships, Eating & Drinking, Realistic & Complicated
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Metaphor
Biography
An avant-garde writer associated with the New York School of poets, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has spent most of her life in New York City. Her collections of poetry include Midwinter Day (1982, 1999), A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992), The Desire of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994), Another Smashed Pinecone (1998), and Poetry State Forest (2008). Known for her innovative use of language, . . .
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SUBJECT Cities & Urban Life, Love, Social Commentaries, Activities, Class, Relationships, Eating & Drinking, Realistic & Complicated
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Language Poetry
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Metaphor
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