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Bernadette Mayer

2020332 pages
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"In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: For one month she exposed a roll of 35mm film and kept a daily journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. Memory 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…

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  • Hardcover · English · 2020
    Siglio Press · 332 pages · 9781938221255
Poetry (poetic works by one author)PhotographyDiariesConceptual artMemory in artSelf in literatureColor photographyPOETRY