Scarlet Tanager Palm-Lined with Potience writes with the speed of

writes with the speed of intuition

Featuring a ballet in four acts―"part ghost

in artificiële woestijnen en op geoliede dad bods

these poems show me how spirit isn't just born

Erica Baum

Scarlet Tanager Palm-Lined with Potience writes with the speed ofBernadette Mayer Called magnificent by John Ashbery and consummate by Robert Creeley, Mayer mixes together delightful epigrams (What it means to be a mammal sexually its cute), long line free verse, and her astonishing sonnets. There are also curious, extremely witty translations of Mayer poems into joking, free style French, which are then re translated back into English, landing quite some ways from the original.