The Golden Book of Words - Bernadette Mayer Performance along with a few sounds

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he studied philosophy in Germany before returning to Japan and becoming a self-taught architect

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The Golden Book of Words - Bernadette Mayer Performance along with a few soundsThis landmark early book by the late great Bernadette Mayer is finally available again. Mayer was a marvelous poet in every stage of her long and prolific writing life, but many fans especially relish her restless, powerful, sexy, and erudite early work. One of her signal elements is a deadpan wit, on full display here with classic poems such as Lookin Like Areas of Kansas or What Babies Really Do, or the marvelous Essay I guess its too late to live