Milkweed Smithereens - Bernadette Mayer Paul Celan For the past thirty years

For the past thirty years

who it is we are applauding at the end of each scene

Tucked between her photographs is a text by Alberto Savinio about the magic of walking and discovering a foreign place

and dreamy as dreams themselves

Milkweed Smithereens - Bernadette Mayer Paul Celan For the past thirty yearsMilkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from her Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early poems and sonnets found in the attic or rooted out in the UC San Diego archive. The world of nature and the pandemic loom large, as in her The Lobelias of Fear:but how will we, still alive, socializein the