Midwinter DayBernadette Mayer Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. "Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day morning, afternoon, evening, night to dreams again: ". . . a plain introduction to modes of love and reason Then to end