Bauer’s newest collection is an exploration of time: how we perceive it and its passing, how we use language to describe the lived experience that time informs, and the transformations we undergo during its passing.
Grace Bauer’s MEAN/TIME crackles with intelligence and heart. Reading this book is fuel for anyone’s imagination. It does what poetry can do—it takes your mind where it hasn’t gone before.
In MEAN/TIME truth and its necessary consolations grace our lives as we go about ‘maintaining / the sacred by performing the mundane.’
Grace Bauer is a poet at the height of her powers. The landscape of American poetry is brightened considerably by the verve of MEAN/TIME.
Grace Bauer is the author of four books of poetry, including Nowhere All at Once.
One
Reality Check
Conditional
MEAN/TIME
"Books Become Windows"
Blue Yonder
Little Wing
Counter/Clock/Wise
Watch
Time Was
Time/X
Re/Wind
Interlude in Auvillar
The Deceptive Day
Twilight
Dis/Illusions
Four/Instance
Still Life as Oxymoron
Torsos
What Beckons
The Wandering Dream
The Flying Dream
Two
Field
Synchronicity
Opportunity
Oceanic
Cri De Coeur
Foundational
A Stitch in Time
Hand to Mouth
Your Life as Cliché
Either Way
Theoretical
Against Proof
Three
Momentous
Mean/While
Sad September Song
Fret
Truth
Dyslexical
Darwinesque
Caw
Hues of Blues
Weather Report
Nocturne
Overdue Elegy
Mind of Winter
Half-Empty
Half-Full
Out Far. In Deep.
Means of Transport
Dusting the Angel
Journey
Poems and Why You Write Them
Glimpse
Acknowledgments
Notes on Poems
