Memory by Bernadette Mayer (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Corners very slightly bumped else as new.

Hardcover. 1st edition. Siglio Press, 2020, 335 pages, 7.2 x 0.9 x 10.1 inches. NEW, in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US. -- A revered classic of 1970s New York conceptualism, Bernadette Mayer's Memory synthesizes writing and photography in this prescient "emotional science project" In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: for one month she shot 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. Memory is both monumental in scope (over 1,100 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 experimental writers of her generation. Presaging Mayer's durational, constraint-based diaristic works of poetry, it also evinces her extraordinaryâand often unheraldedâcontribution to conceptual art. Mayer has called Memory "an emotional science project," but it is far from confessional. 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. In text and image, Mayer constructs the mercurial consciousness of the present moment from which memory isâas she saysâ"always there, to be entered, like the world of dreams or an ongoing TV show." This 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 at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago and then again in 2017 in New York City at the CANADA Gallery. The text was published without the photographs in 1975 by North Atlantic Books in an edition that has long been out of print. Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) is the author of over 30 books, including the acclaimed Midwinter Day (1982), a book-length poem written during a single day in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994) and Work and Days (2016), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Associated with the New York School as well as the Language poets, Mayer has also been an influential teacher and editor. In the art world, she is best known for her collaboration with Vito Acconci as editors of the influential mimeographed magazine 0 TO 9. new, in publisher's shrink wrap.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good solid rare perfect bound paperback. Interior fine without writing or highlighting. 196 pages. Chipping at top of spine. Creasing to spine. Light creasing at front cover corners. Rubbing to front and back covers and vertical wear parallel to front and back covers along spine.…

First Edition. inscribed first edition, 1975. scarce. "for edmund in poetry + philosophy bernadette" mayer's self-described "emotional science project" in writing and photographs that was first exhibited at 98 greene street in new york, february 1972. plainfield, vermont: north atlantic books. isbn: 0913028398. 6 x 9 inches. 195 pages. softcover. perfect bound in pictorial paper wrappers. book condition: rubbing to extremities. bumping to foot of spine. very good ++. Signed. …

Condition: Very good plus. First printing. Inscribed first edition, association copy, of this increasingly uncommon work from Mayer - presented to fellow New York School poet Ted Berrigan. Originally executed by the poet as a series of photographs with accompanying texts from her journals, Mayer would call MEMORY "an emotional science project." While this first edition includes the text from that project, and the photographs were originally exhibited by gallerist Holly Solomon in 1972, the complete book would not be published until the 2020 Siglio Press edition. Since the time, this first edition has become increasingly uncommon, especially signed. A fantastic association. 9'' x 6''. Original black-and-white photographic wrappers. 196 pages. Inscribed by Mayer on the title page and around the title itself: "For Ted, in / [MEMORY] / of __'s bathtub / Bernadette." Some foxing to edges of book. Minor toning, rubbing to covers. Overall, clean and sound. Signed.…