Scarlet TanagerBernadette Mayer Called magnificent by John Ashbery and consummate by Robert Creeley, Mayer mixes together delightful epigrams (What it means to be a mammal sexually its cute), long line free verse, and her astonishing sonnets. There are also curious, extremely witty translations of Mayer poems into joking, free style French, which are then re translated back into English, landing quite some ways from the original.