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This expanded 25th Anniversary edition includes a new preface by Bernadette Mayer, an editor's note by Tender Buttons Press publisher Lee Ann Brown, and a selection of previously unpublished archival material including the Skinny Sonnets, described as Hypnogogic Word Playing in Reporters' Notebooks which further expand our map of Bernadette Mayer's groundbreaking works of writing consciousness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43971434119382,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/products\/dustcover_sonnets_rgb_final-2.jpg?v=1675723277"},{"product_id":"the-desires-of-mothers-to-please-others-in-letters","title":"The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eBernadette Mayer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEndlessly inclusive, \u003cem\u003eThe Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1994 and long out of print, evokes the complexity of real persons as it simultaneously reinvents multiple genres: epistle, prose poem, and memoir. Written between 1979 and 1980 while pregnant with her third child, Mayer extends her imaginative letters into meditations for us all on life as it is lived in real time, with its responsibilities and manifold desires. Fierce, lyrical, intimate, and wise, both new and familiar readers, both mothers and non-mothers, will find this book beckoning again and again to offer delicious writing, timely information, consolation, and advice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844542615882,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/mayerletters.jpg?v=1687207843"},{"product_id":"memory","title":"Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eBernadette Mayer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: For one month she exposed a roll of 35mm film each day and kept a journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. \u003cem\u003eMemory\u003c\/em\u003e is both monumental in scope (over 1100 photographs, two hundred pages of text and six hours of audio recording) and a groundbreaking work by a poet who is widely regarded as one of the most innovative writers of her generation. Presaging Mayer’s durational and constraint-based diaristic works of poetry, it also evinces her extraordinary—and unheralded—contribution to conceptual art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMayer has called \u003cem\u003eMemory\u003c\/em\u003e “an emotional science project,” but it is far from confessional. Rather, this boldly experimental record follows the poet’s eye as she traverses early morning into night, as quotidian minutiae metamorphose into the lyrical, as her stream of consciousness becomes incantatory. The space of memory in Mayer’s work is hyper-precise but also evanescent and expansive. In both text and image, Mayer constructs the mercurial, fleeting consciousness of the present moment from which memory is—as she says—“always there, to be entered, like the world of dreams or an ongoing TV show.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication brings together the full sequence of images and text for the first time in book form, making space for a work that has been legendary but mostly invisible. Originally exhibited in 1972 by pioneering gallerist Holly Solomon, it was not shown again in its entirety until 2016. 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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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49852117483850,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/ed22863dc8510aa8c4241c80a1a2557d52bcc280-840x1267.jpg?v=1736867687"},{"product_id":"studying-hunger-journals","title":"Studying Hunger Journals","description":"\u003cp\u003eBernadette Mayer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1972 Bernadette Mayer began this project as an aid to psychological counseling, writing in parallel journals so that, as she wrote in one (in bed, on subways, at parties, etc.), her psychiatrist read the other. Using coloured pens to \"color-code emotions,\" she recorded dreams, events, memories, and reflections in a language at once free-ranging and precise – a work that creates its own poetics. She sought \"a workable code, or shorthand, for the transcription of every event, every motion, every transition\" of her own mind and to \"perform this process of translation\" on herself in the interest of evolving an innovative, inquiring language. \u003cem\u003eStudying Hunger Journals\u003c\/em\u003e registers this intention within a body of poetry John Ashbery has called \"magnificent.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50233433751882,"sku":"","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/61u_9dDTAQL._SL1500.jpg?v=1739465642"},{"product_id":"poetry-state-forest","title":"Poetry State Forest","description":"\u003cp\u003eBernadette Mayer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCalled “a consummate poet” by Robert Creeley and “a poet of extraordinary inventiveness, erotic energy and challenge, and ironic intelligence” by Michael Palmer, Bernadette Mayer can be found in all her variety in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry State Forest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which contains nature poems, sonnets, prose poetry, pastiches, long sequences, and epigrams.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50295291609418,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/710x-WjbZ9L._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1741514594"},{"product_id":"a-piece-of-cake","title":"Piece of Cake","description":"\u003cp\u003eBernadette Mayer \u0026amp; Lewis Warsh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh wrote \u003cem\u003ePiece of Cake\u003c\/em\u003e as a work of collaborative prose poetry, based on a process of each writing on alternate days in the course of August of 1976-the bicentennial year of the America's Declaration of Independence. It recounts the quotidian details of daily activities, negotiating the exigencies of young, married-with-children life, the artistic path and citizenship. It has the classic \"I did this, I did that\" of a New York School of Poetry text, as characterized by the poetry of Frank O'Hara, and is somewhat reminiscent of Mayer's work Studying Hunger Journal, written not long before taking up Piece of Cake. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnother distinguishing feature of this work is that it is arguably the first significant male-female collaboration in 20th century American poetry. Regarding the possible derivation of the work's title, and exemplary of the work's tenor, is the start of Warsh's entry of August 29: \"I also recall getting up and eating a piece of left-over cake (a very sweet store-bought cake with green or possibly pinkish icing) and drinking a glass of milk at the kitchen window. Empty streets, no moon. 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