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A Truce With Fantasy, by Bill Mayer
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Bill Mayer is a master of the plain style. His writing moves at the pace of breathing, of walking, of slow, caressive speech to build a poetry richly faithful to our sensate and physical life, as here in one of his many poems of camping in the desert: “Feeling the expected fear rise up in me as the light fades / from the last clouds to the west. Looking east / to the deep purple, and black outlines of mountains. / The wind quieting. Letting the fear leak out / beyond the little pool of light into the darkness.” He lovingly sifts that life, asking the questions of shape, value, limit, finding in poem after poem those points where the physical merges across to the spiritual: “Human misery is a constant. / If we could perfect the brain, / re-wire it to allow us the happiness we deserve, / would that be a good thing?” —Richard Silberg, author of The Horses, New and Selected Poems Bill Mayer is writing some of the most powerful, intelligent, and serious poems of any poet I’ve been reading in the last few years. —Joseph Stroud, author of Of This Earth, New and Selected Poems Bill Mayer’s A Truce With Fantasy is a collection of exceptional beauty and probity. Despite their gentle insistence on looking directly at what assails us—be it time, the body’s impermanence, the inevitable repetition of hope and despair—these poems are infused with an enduring faith in the possibility of one means or another of regeneration. Breath, birdcall, dawn in the desert, a spider in his backyard studio: Mayer’s answer to the question Does the I last? is an intimate naming of the things of this world. His eye is that of the photographer he is: clear, precise, and scrupulously attentive to detail. His voice is restrained, thoughtful, and humble; yet it carries the authority of one who has lived deeply and felt deeply. Mayer’s vision is consistently pervaded by his closeness to the wild, the natural world, and—though grounded, understated—there is a radiant presence in these poems of reverence and mystery. —Anita Barrows, author of Exile
A Truce With Fantasy, by Bill Mayer- Amazon Sales Rank: #3014844 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-08
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .35" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 152 pages
About the Author Bill Mayer was born and raised in Los Angeles. He received his BA and MA from San Francisco State University, studying with Jack Gilbert, Stan Rice, William Dickey and Nanos Valaoritis. In the late '60s, he was invited to join a poetry workshop with Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Larry Felson, George Stanley, Bill Anderson, Wilbur Wood, and others. The workshop persists to this day with some of its original participants. Mayer has published 5 books of poetry: Longing, (Pangaea, 1992), The Uncertainty Principle (Omnidawn, 2001), The Deleted Family (Paroikia, 2004), Articulate Matter (Paroikia, 2012) and now A Truce With Fantasy (Aldrich Press, Kelsay Books). Poems have also appeared in a number of magazines: Caterpiller, Ironwood, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Montana Gothic, Five Fingers Review, Red Rock Review, Paris Atlantic Poetry Flash, Alimentum, and Visions International, among others. He was included in an anthology of American poets who have lived in Greece, Kindled Terraces, edited by Donald Schofield. Mayer has traveled widely, having spent extended time in Vermont, England, Greece, Hawaii, Monterey, Germany, France, Italy, and Austria. He is also a professional photographer (working with Tony Keppelman on Hummingbirds, a photographic essay published by Little-Brown), and an importer of German and Austrian wines. He lives with his wife, Jane McKinne-Mayer, who teaches art history at the California College of the Arts, in Berkeley, California.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I wish I could write a review that does justice ... By Carol Kuzdenyi I wish I could write a review that does justice to Bill Mayer’s poetry, but I am rather at a loss for words. Bill has captured a deep insight into living life on this planet, and communicates it with a gentleness and a deep emotion that is loving and wistful. He speaks soul to soul, heart to heart. His thoughts and ideas are delivered with effortless grace which reach down inside me, and make me want to read more. Someone once said, "Good design has the innate ability to erase all traces of itself.” I think the same is true of poetic technique. Bill Mayer’s craft erases all traces of itself. What’s left is beauty.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I am always pleased to see how each new addition to his canon ... By Dan Gotch A Truce With Fantasy is a challenging, engaging, delightful and accessible book of poetry. Having read Bill’s work consistently over the last 40 years, I am always pleased to see how each new addition to his canon matures and deepens his style and content as he engages varied themes and subject matters both old and new. While The Deleted Family is probably his most accessible book (and you should definitely read that one as well), Bill has arrived at an age where he can look back, and forward, with new clarity and immediacy.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful story poems. By Andrea Pflaumer Bill Mayer's moving and raw exploration into life and mortality is told with grace and clarity in this latest collection. I don't know why he isn't mor widely known and read.
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