Poetry State Forest - Bernadette Mayer (New Directions) magazine — Maggie Nelson

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Poetry State Forest - Bernadette Mayer (New Directions) magazine — Maggie NelsonCalled a consummate poet by Robert Creeley and a poet of extraordinary inventiveness, erotic energy and challenge, and ironic intelligence by Michael Palmer, Bernadette Mayer can be found in all her variety in Poetry State Forest, which contains nature poems, sonnets, prose poetry, pastiches, long sequences, and epigrams. The richness of life and time as they happen to us in tiny explosions of all the time are grasped and held up for us to view in