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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.
- 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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