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[SOURCE, MANUSCRIPT AND DRAFT MATERIALS FOR MAYER'S BOOK ERUDITIO EX MEMORIA].
Author: MAYER, Bernadette. Publisher: [New York]: np, [ca. 1964-1977]. First edition. 85 leaves of material, approx. 150pp. overall. Various sizes and formats all housed in a legal-sized manila envelope marked "Random Notebook" in Mayer's hand. Generally very good or better. Condition: Very Good. In his review of Bernadette Mayer's Eruditio Ex Memoria (Angel Hair, 1978), Douglas Messerli described the work thusly: "Memory, history, personal history, autobiography, metaphysical autobiography, Eruditio Ex Memoria is all of these" (L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, #7, March 1979). Or as Nada Gordon later wrote of Mayer's mid-career mimeo: "Mayer's compositional method for this book is to rescue the reams of documentation she acquired throughout her academic life, and to reformulate them as art." Offered here are those very "reams of documentation" Mayer utilized in creating her ninth book. Included are about 150 pages (on 85 leaves) of years of class and academic notes from Mayer's college and high school careers: various drawings and diagrams (including the original art and collage that become the cover of Eruditio), papers (including a typed report on Boolean Algebra), notes, hand-outs and other primary and holographic material, all of which Mayer eventually stitched together (in one form or another) through cut-up and collage techniques into what would become Eruditio Ex Memoria. Not a draft in the traditional sense, but rather the inspiration for the book and source material from which the text was assembled. A rare look into the experimental compositional methods of this important second generation New York School poet and one that serves to clarify what is often read as one of Mayer's most difficult works. Quantity available: 1. Price: US$2,500.00 |
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