Community Reading: Midwinter Day
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Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212
Join us this winter solstice as we celebrate with others from across the nation the 40th anniversary of Bernadette Mayer's epic tribute to the darkest, shortest day of the year with its inherent promise of longer, warmer days to come.
We will open at 3 PM with an introduction then fifteen different readers will take turns performing sections of the poem - start to finish! We'll have cider and snacks!
About the book:
Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978 at 100 Main Street, in Lennox, Massachusettes. “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.”
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