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Bernadette Mayer, "[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up"

Bernadette Mayer, "[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up"

Released Friday, 3rd September 2021
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Bernadette Mayer, "[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up"

Bernadette Mayer, "[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up"

Bernadette Mayer, "[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up"

Bernadette Mayer, "[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up"

Friday, 3rd September 2021
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How can something published in 1968 be so 2021?

It can because it's a lyric poem by Bernadette Mayer, a poet whose work may well define what I think is great about lyric poetry.

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I take a look at this fabulous and very adult sonnet by one of the best American poets working still today.

Rage? You bet! But in sonnet form.

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