Works and Days - Bernadette Mayer environment and artistic expression in a

and artistic expression in a digital world that flattens and forgets

Cramps was a relatively short-lived endeavor

Contributions by Anastasia A Khodyreva

who early on paid attention to ecology

Works and Days - Bernadette Mayer environment and artistic expression in aPart 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