Midwinter Day - Bernadette Mayer book A contradiction is born of

A contradiction is born of this state of affairs

the one inherited from his Palestinian father and the one he chose and lives

born 1942 in England

George Eliot

Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist liberation movement

Midwinter Day - Bernadette Mayer book A contradiction is born ofPerhaps Bernadette Mayers greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978 at 100 Main Street, in Lennox, 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 daymorning, afternoon, evening, nightto dreams again: a plain introduction to modes of love and reason, Then to end I guess with love, a method to