Scarlet Tanager Veva Leye zonen en hun vader

zonen en hun vader

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bilingual edition by Tenement Press—with an afterword by translator

and somehow polite poems explore what it can be like to be a woman and to slither through and away from threat to find voice and form and power

Scarlet Tanager Veva Leye zonen en hun vaderBernadette Mayer Called magnificent by John Ashbery and consummate by Robert Creeley, Mayer mixes together delightful epigrams (What it means to be a mammal sexually its cute), long line free verse, and her astonishing sonnets. There are also curious, extremely witty translations of Mayer poems into joking, free style French, which are then re translated back into English, landing quite some ways from the original.