The Golden Book of Words - Bernadette Mayer

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The Golden Book of Words - Bernadette MayerThis landmark early book by the late great Bernadette Mayer is finally available again. Mayer was a marvelous poet in every stage of her long and prolific writing life, but many fans especially relish her restless, powerful, sexy, and erudite early work. One of her signal elements is a deadpan wit, on full display here with classic poems such as Lookin Like Areas of Kansas or What Babies Really Do, or the marvelous Essay I guess its too late to live

follows the exploits of the Trurl and Klapaucius: two ingenious 'constructors'

constantly experimenting and testing new techniques

as we see intimations that resonate with our experience of the later John Cage

when there was nothing left to destroy in the figurative form and the object lost its materiality

his role in French modernism was essential

a nimble and associative work of essayism that aims to map a reticulated cultural biography of the sound of the cicada

soft drums

Often considered in light of post-Cagean art practices

and my enemies are in power

Croggon’s striking new artist’s book How to Cut an Orange embraces the written word more wholeheartedly than ever before

Per questo può essere considerato L’anarchitetto

this book will be be of interest to theorists and practitioners of urban design