Midwinter Day

By Bernadette Mayer

"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!"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811214060
• ISBN13: 9780811214063
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"