The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980 Tineke E. Jansen

The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980 Tineke E. JansenRosemary & Bernadette Mayer This collection of the correspondence between artist Rosemary Mayer (1943 2014) and poet Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) occurs between the years of 1976 and 1980, a period of rich creativity in New York's artistic avant garde, and one which includes the development of major bodies of work by the two women. Rosemary Mayer was creating sculptures, watercolors, books and "temporary monuments" from weather balloons and snow,

In the midst of these challenges

I grew up with dual realities

religie en erotiek in een vernieuwende vorm tot een literair kookpunt brengt

Na jaren te hebben gewerkt aan zijn Elegieën schrijft Rilke in februari 1922 als ‘aus einem Guss’ zijn 55 sonnetten

he predicts

vulcanology (here standing in for geopolitics and attempts to control social unrest)

Born and raised in Pittsburgh

Dialectic objects are listed out like in a grammar book or laboratory

"To have the idea of the secret chord is to have the secret chord

in a varied collection representing roughly a decade of work

fortunately or unfortunately

Mark Tardi