Midwinter Day

"Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem 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//Welcome sun, at last with thy softer light/That takes the bite from winter weather/And weaves the random cloth of life together/And drives away the long black night!"

Author: Bernadette Mayer
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/01/1999
Series: New Directions Paperbook #876
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780811214063