A Bernadette Mayer Reader (New Directions Paperbook, 739)

She writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that shes read without a thought to stop. Best so this world is found changed. Clark Coolidge

What a clear, insistent health there is hereas if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I've read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world of real people in real times and places, a fact of love and loving use. She has impeccable insight and humor. She is a consummate poet no matter whats for supper or who eats it. Would that all genius were as generous. Robert Creeley