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Proper name & other stories / Bernadette Mayer.

Van Pelt Library PS3563.A952 P76 1996
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mayer, Bernadette.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Manners and customs--Fiction.
Manners and customs.
Genre:
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
152 pages ; 21 cm
Other Title:
Proper name and other stories
Proper name
Place of Publication:
New York : New Directions, [1996]
Summary:
Stories by an experimental writer. In A Non-Unified Field Theory of Love and Landlords, one reads: "Tiny space dust and space grains of sand rain / Down on the earth by the millions each minute / And interplanetary and interstellar comets ast / Eroids and meteoroids are more numerous than a / Ll the fish in all the seas of the world and y / Ou might discover a comet and become famous ..."
Contents:
Agoraphobia
Ice cube epigrams
My excellent novel
Farmers exchange
Two haloed mourners
We plow the roads
Noun pile-up of travel on M15 bus
Juan gave Nora a pomegranate
You don't aggressively soothe the butter
Primitive Road
A non-unified theory of love and landlords
The landlord quit to write a book
Proper name
Is Summer there?
Elegy
Attention to Spring
0 to 19
Essay: How carefully do we tend?
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Notes:
"A New Directions paperbook original NDP825."
ISBN:
0811213250
9780811213257
OCLC:
33983767

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