Proper Name collects for the first time the inimitable stories of Bernadette Mayer--"one of the most original writers of her generation" ( The Washington Post ). The nineteen narratives of Proper Name include "My Excellent Novel," "Ice Cube Epigrams," "Essay: How Carefully Do We Tend?" and "Juan Gave Nora a Pomegranate." Mayer's structural inventions are terrific and unique. As Fanny Howe remarked in The American Book Review , "In a language made up of idiom and lyricism, Mayer cancels the boundaries between prose and ...
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Proper Name collects for the first time the inimitable stories of Bernadette Mayer--"one of the most original writers of her generation" ( The Washington Post ). The nineteen narratives of Proper Name include "My Excellent Novel," "Ice Cube Epigrams," "Essay: How Carefully Do We Tend?" and "Juan Gave Nora a Pomegranate." Mayer's structural inventions are terrific and unique. As Fanny Howe remarked in The American Book Review , "In a language made up of idiom and lyricism, Mayer cancels the boundaries between prose and poetry."
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