Midwinter Day

Book measures 7 x 10.75 inches. Printed wrappers. Perhaps Bernadette Mayer’s greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978 at 100 Main Street, in Lenox, Massachusetts. “Midwinter Day,” as Alice Notley noted, “is an epic poem about a daily routine.” In six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day—morning, afternoon, evening, night—to dreams again: “. . . a plain introduction to modes of love and reason / Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season / Now I’ve said this love it’s all I can remember / Of Midwinter Day the twenty-second of December.” This collection is of one of Mayer’s conceptually structured extended works, which still is celebrated by annual readings of the poem.

Edges of wrappers shows very light signs of wear, with minimal rubbing to spine edges. Otherwise a very clean copy in tight binding. Near Fine.