Category Archives: Claudia Rankine

Happy “Midwinter Day” Day!

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Andrew Epstein

On December 22, 1978, Bernadette Mayer wrote her groundbreaking, book-length poem, Midwinter Day. In recent years, poets and readers and Mayer fans have gathered to mark the occasion by reading from the book. As Mayer herself told Fanny Howe in a … Continue reading →

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Happy 40th Birthday to Midwinter Day (by Bernadette Mayer)

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Andrew Epstein

“I had an idea to write a book that would … prove the day like the dream has everything in it.” — Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day Today marks the 40th anniversary of an important moment in twentieth-century poetry — the … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: “Attention Equals Life” (with discount code)

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Andrew Epstein

  As I’ve mentioned a few times here before, my second book, Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture, was recently published by Oxford University Press.  Although it is not strictly a study of the New … Continue reading →

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