A Distance Apart: Poems - Softcover

Mayer, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578602709 ISBN 13: 9780578602707

Publisher: Marrowstone Press, 2019

Synopsis

All his life a lover of music, Bill Mayer was especially moved by the great composers’
final works: among them, Schubert’s, Verdi’s, Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. He
wrote A Distance Apart in the last months of a long illness. Bill had always been a poet
of the wondrous, the evocative meanings of every day things, of the dailiness of
beauty and friendship and love. In his final poems, one finds a poet still in love with a
life he does not want to lose, an earth he does not want to leave in which everything
lives its amazing life, “all of us together, partners in the world.”

About this title

About the Author

Bill Mayer was born and raised in Los Angeles. He received his BA and MA from San Francisco State University. Through much of his life, he was a dealer in fine wines, especially German and Austrian. He was an avid photographer, exhibiting his pictures of bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of eastern California at Mythos Gallery in 2011. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines. From 1992 to 2019, he published six books of poetry, among them The Deleted Family and Articulate Matter. He was married to the art historian, Jane McKinne-Mayer. He died after a long illness on October 25, 2019. A Distance Apart, his final poems, was written during the last months of his life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marrowstone Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0578602709
• ISBN 13: 9780578602707
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40