Catrin Menai

Bernadette Mayer

The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters - Bernadette Mayer .
“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”. 

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The Invisible Structure BERNADETTE MAYER

                      The invisible structure was E = mc2

             ……… in the original experience it is not identified

          as the vague. it is a function of the whole situation,

                 & not an element in it, as it would have to be

in order to be apprehended as vague

                              the outcome of a process

                 no experience is a unity unless it is aesthetic

        is it true?

                          exploitation of the energy characteristic of

    the material used as a medium

          a tape of many people saying the same word

              people sitting on the stage, actions on tape

 something that changes with the weather or day

                six performances

 colors become more vivid when seen with the

                           head upside down.

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