Sonnets, first published in 1989 as Tender Buttons Number 1 is widely considered to be one of the most generative and innovative works of contemporary American poetry, radically rethinking the traditional sonnet form. This expanded 25th Anniversary edition includes a new preface by Bernadette Mayer, an editor's note by Tender Buttons Press publisher Lee Ann Brown, and a selection of previously unpublished archival material including the Skinny Sonnets, described as "Hypnogogic Word Playing in Reporters' Notebooks" which further expand our map of Bernadette Mayer's ground-breaking works of writing consciousness.

Sonnets: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition

Literature & Fiction

Mayer, Bernadette

Poetry

Tender Buttons Press

25 years ago Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets were published in a run of 1,000 copies and quickly went out of print. Sonnets continues to be loved and taught as an underground classic, often on sun-bleached photocopy. Finally, in 2014, Tender Buttons Press has brought out an expanded 25th Anniversary Edition of Sonnets, along with this companion teaching guide. Included are the first review of Sonnets from Poetry Flash, an expanded version of Bernadette Mayer's List of Experiments, and a sampling of responses in answer to her call: "Please add to this list." Now even more poets, students, parents, scholars, pets and aliens can write poems after reading Bernadette Mayer's Experiments.

Please Add To This List: Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets and Experiments

Katy Bohinc

Dear Alain

Katy Bohinc's Dear Alain is a headlong, investigative imagined conversation between Poet and Philosopher, a long love poem of letters addressed to French Platonist philosopher, Alain Badiou. At once "a romance novel of a sort," a metaphor of the relationship between poetry &amp; philosophy, and a representation of the work of Alain Badiou. Includes a short response by Badiou himself. A place where "We meet at infinity".

Bohinc, Katy

Katy Bohinc's Dear Alain is a headlong, investigative imagined conversation between Poet and Philosopher, a long love poem of letters addressed to French Platonist philosopher, Alain Badiou. At once "a romance novel of a sort," a metaphor of the relationship between poetry &amp; philosophy, and a representation of the work of Alain Badiou. Includes a short response by Badiou himself. A place where "We meet at infinity".

Lynn Martin's wild embodiment of landscape are here published posthumously. Like the scorpions and Appalachian mountains very much alive in these poems, Martin's work announces a new magical understanding of the spirits present in our daily environments through an unrelenting generosity towards the simple and "known unknowns" of the universe.

Shiver

Martin, Lynn

17th Anniversary Edition of Dodie Bellamy's award-winning classic, Cunt-Ups. With an introduction by Sophie Robinson.

Cunt-Ups, 17th Anniversary Edition

Bellamy, Dodie

Here In Garments Worn By Lindens, Laynie Browne begins a project she terms "homage text" for the poet Rosmarie Waldrop. All titles (which appear in italics above each brief prose poem) are taken from Waldrop's book, Lawn of Excluded Middle, originally published by Tender Buttons Press in 1993. As Browne's sequence progresses, echoes of Waldrop's text occur throughout the work with slight alternations. This new book continues to investigate gender, perception, personhood as well as permissions to invoke and explore all "excluded middles." In this way, Browne rewrites, responds to, and refigures the material of language in a way that echoes the way Waldrop works with Wittgenstein's sentences making them utterly new in only the way a poet can. In Lawn of Excluded Middle, Rosmarie Waldrop writes: "Poetry an alternate less linear logic." Here, Laynie Browne weaves an intricate, intertextual poem of associational praise into a new practice, a new form.

In Garments Worn By Lindens

Browne, Laynie

When filmmaker Lynne Sachs turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for every year of her life, so far. Each of the fifty poems investigates the relationship between a singular event in Sachs life and the swirl of events beyond her domestic universe. Published by Tender Buttons Press, Year by Year Poems juxtaposes Sachs finished poems, which move from her birth in 1961 to her half-century marker in 2011, with her original handwritten first drafts. In this way, she reveals her process of navigating within and alongside historical events such as the Moon Landing, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., streaking, the Anita Hill hearings, the Columbine shootings, and controversies around universal health care. In Year by Year Poems, Lynne Sachs realizes the long anticipated leap from her extraordinary career in filmmaking to this, her first book of poems.

Year By Year Poems

Humor & Entertainment

Sachs, Lynne

Movies

THE TELARAÑA CIRCUIT is Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola's first book of poems, a deeply felt and sustained investigative thought-web of material and immaterial memory. THE TELARAÑA CIRCUIT is Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola's first book of poems, a deeply felt and sustained investigative thought-web of material and immaterial memory. Through different sectional lenses, she constructs a poetic portrait of her aunt who was, aptly, an archeologist. In this, she creates a series of visual and sonic poem-glyphs that score archaeologies of personal and cultural memory, where each cycle spins and sings new registers of connective depth. This bilingual text blossoms into a mesh of charged, fractal elements: each line or "fragment" imbued with the full presence of the whole. Poetry. Art. Latin American Studies. Women's Studies.

the Telaraña Circuit

Hinojosa Gaxiola, Lucía

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Sonnets: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition

Please Add To This List: Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets and Experiments

Dear Alain

Dear Alain

Shiver

Cunt-Ups, 17th Anniversary Edition

In Garments Worn By Lindens

Year By Year Poems

the Telaraña Circuit