Works and Days - Bernadette Mayer environment Contributions by Anastasia A Khodyreva

Contributions by Anastasia A Khodyreva

In close dialogue with images and historical documents

Amitav Ghosh

and artistic expression in a digital world that flattens and forgets

"Mah Nà Mah Nà" (originally "Viva la Sauna Svedese" ("Hooray for the Swedish Sauna"))

Works and Days - Bernadette Mayer environment Contributions by Anastasia A KhodyrevaPart springtime journal (why are there thorns?), "Works and Days" meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens of poems considering the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas Browne, Go Away welcome mats, books, floods (never of dollar money), the invention of words, local politics, friendships, property development, dogs, and Hesiod. Every page delights. As the poet herself