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Bernadette Mayer after William S Burroughs' talk, Kappa Sigma House,  Boulder Colorado, July 1985. Snapped by Allen. 

A major fundraising initiative for Bernadette is underway, which involves plans for this year's marathon reading of her classic text, Midwinter Day.  In early October Bernadette was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She is doing well and her doctors are currently working on a treatment plan, which will likely involve surgery and other treatments. This current fundraising effort will cover expenses for the next 6 months of recovery, going towards: making up lost wages, additional medical expenses not covered by insurance, urgent house repairs, and supporting the general comfort and well-being of Bernadette and Phil as they navigate this health situation. Any additional funds will go towards house repairs and the preservation of the house as a place for workshops, readings, and other gatherings into the future. A more targeted fundraising campaign for the house that identifies specific needs and projects will be announced soon.   Details at: bernadettemayer.com/donate #bernadettemayer #poetrycommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CXPMLx7PcDV/?utm_medium=tumblr

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We will miss Bernadette Mayer, poet and conceptual photographer, who has died at the age of 77. ⁠ ⁠ Photographs here are from 'Bernadette Mayer: Memory,' published by @sigliopress⁠ ⁠ #bernadettemayer #bernadettemayerrip⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/ClT26w3OhfM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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very strong february

A man and a woman pretend to be white ice Three men at the lavender door are closed in by the storm With strong prejudice and money to buy the green pines One weekend fisherman and blue painters watch The vivid violet winds blow visibility from the mountain Beyond the black valley. That means or then you know You’re in a big cloud of it, it’s brilliant white mid-February A week or two left on distracting black trees Before the brownish buds obscure your view of the valley again. Looking for company four dark men and a burnt sienna woman Come in for three minutes, then bye-bye like a gold watch left on the chair Or part of the sum of what big white families think up To store for long yellow Sundays to eat for brown ecological company. At some point later gorgeous red adventure stops, did you forget To turn it down and laugh in the face of the fearful white storm anyway Or picture it brilliant blue for a further Sunday memory In a coloring book, you talk as lightly as you can Refusing a big pink kiss, you burned the Sunday sauce Of crushed red tomatoes, you turn it down to just an orange glow. This particular storm, considering the pause and the greenish thaw before it Reminds me in its mildness of imitating a sea-green memory that is actually In the future, I imitate an imagined trumpet sound Or the brilliant purple words of a man or woman I haven’t met yet Or perhaps it’s a grey-haired man I already know who said something yesterday To a mutual friend who will give me the whole story in black and white tomorrow Or the day after, just as the big orange plows for the local businesses Go to work to push away the rest of the white snow that will fall tonight.

Bernadette Mayer

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Let's hear it for @cultured_mag whose Top 5 Art Books of 2020 include three from our list!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'Fashion Work: 25 Years of Art in Fashion' by @jeppeugelvig published by @damiani_books⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'Bernadette Mayer: Memory' published by @sigliopress⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings, Volume One, 1954–1978,' edited with text by Jean-Louis Cohen, published by @cahiersdart⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read reviews of all of the books via linkinbio!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #fashionwork #jeppeugelvig #bernadettemayer #frankgehrydrawings #frankgehry @frankgehry https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbpAqMppLF/?igshid=h51v8236fhdp

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An exquisite Best Books of 2020 feature is up now @brooklynrail — and we are thrilled and honored to see that 8 of the editors' top 20 books are on our list.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Congrats to the publishers, artists and writers who contributed to:⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader,' published by @sigliopress⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'Colored People Time,' published by @icaphiladelphia⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'Michael Snow: Cover to Cover,' published by @primaryinfo⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'Bernadette Mayer: Memory,' published by @sigliopress⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'Modern Artifacts,' published by @esopusmag⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ @moyradavey 'I Confess,' published by @dancing_foxes & @natgallerycan⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'Amy Sillman: Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings,' published by @after.8.books⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977,' published by @letter16press⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ To read reviews of each of the books, click on linkinbio!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ @amyandomar @themuseumofmodernart @todlippy @tillman_glossitis #bernadettemayer @l_cy_v_s https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHJjmxJV3i/?igshid=1fxumrb0spc1w

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"Elegy always has a way of creeping into art that documents the once teeming, now empty past: it is almost too painful to glimpse the innocence and the freedom of Mayer’s summer from the point of view of our current fearful season. It can seem a dubious advantage to have survived all those disconnected phones, defunct addresses, dead or forgotten friends. At our moment in history, ‘Memory' reads in part as an archive of suspended (in both senses of the word) pleasures.” —Dan Chiasson @newyorkermag⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Bernadette Mayer: Memory is published by @sigliopresss⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many have reopened or offer curbside pickup! ⁠⠀ #bernadettemayer #memory #bernadettemayermemory #conceptualart #experimentalliterature #readwomen⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CEmvZ7sj9ZR/?igshid=13uonbdnyvjvk

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“'Memory' tempts you to linger on the substantive, but, with its bountiful cars, highways, gas stations, rivers, and bridges, it’s really about getting somewhere. It is happiest in the in-between, and hyperalert to its own transit from one word and image to the next.” —Dan Chiasson @newyorkermag⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Bernadette Mayer: Memory is published by @sigliopresss⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many have reopened or offer curbside pickup! ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #bernadettemayer #memory #bernadettemayermemory #conceptualart #experimentalliterature #readwomen⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CEmYdvmJBgz/?igshid=cy5j2d9un7k7

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"…My synaesthesia’s like a child’s picture book: the sun is yellow because S is, A is red, B is pink, but then E is green like free money, I say to anyone who will listen. Sex is as yellow as the sun with the copper of the X and that green between. So, consistency is predominantly yellow – a word with those beige Cs at either side. Consistency, perhaps a kind of thorough-going harmony, an adhering together of parts, like how everyone in the book lives in the same building, or each character comes from the yellow sun! Everyone’s face is to the hillside, we’ll meet at the foot of the mountain. Everyone will be wearing a yellow violet to signify peace, or a pansy for the first flower’s faith, or a gladiolus for eternal grief…"⁠ ⁠ Read the full text @frieze_magazine ⁠ To order her new book, 'Memory,' published by @sigliopress please contact your local independent #bookstorehero — many are reopening or offering curbside pickup! ⁠⠀⁠ ⁠ #bernadettemayer #memory #synaesthesia⁠ ⁠⠀⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJfsrPJnMe/?igshid=te5msjvtqddc