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Bernadette Mayer workshop July 17, 1989
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Title
Bernadette
Mayer
workshop
July
17
,
1989
Performer(s)
Mayer
,
Bernadette
.
Subject 1
Poetry
,
Modern
--
20th
century
.
Subject 2
Experimental
poetry
.
Abstract
This
lecture
is
presently
referenced
as
part
of a
series
with
89P075
,
however
,
it
is
really
a
separate
lecture
given
by
Bernadette
Mayer
on
7/17/1989
that
talks
about
her
intentions
and
structure
relating
to
every
book
she has
published
to this
date
. She
reads
selections
from "
Utopia
" and "
Sonnets.
" The
overall
purpose
is
for her to
explain
structure
and
processes
she
used
for
putting
together
her
creative
books
. She
does
mention
her
two
discursive
works
"
Handbook
of
Poetic
Forms
" and "
Art
of
Science
Writing.
"
Creative
books
in
chronological
order
discussed
include
: "
Story
" "
Ceremony
Latin
1964
" "
Moving
" "
Memory
" "
Studying
Hunger
" "
Poetry
" "
Euruditio
ex
memoria
" "The
Golden
Book
of
Words
" "
Midwinter
Day
" "
Utopia
" and "
Sonnets.
"
Content
Bernadette
Mayer
begins
by
telling
audience
she will be
describing
her
books
to-date
in
terms
of
form
with
short
selections
being
read
from
some
.
0:56
"
Story
"
first
book
by her
-
self
published
and
is
about
falling
down
-
it
is
a
compilation
of
other
sources
like
Italian
folktales
and
some
myths
about
Indians
-
she
continues
to
provide
background
on her
language
for the
book
-
she
researched
ways
to
say
story
and
reads
a
list
9:54
begins
describing
the
structure
of "
Ceremony
Latin
1964
" and how
is
was a
duplication
of a
journal
from
when
she was
seventeen
11:21
her
next
book
was
published
by
Anne
Waldman
and was
called
"
Moving
" and the
structure
was
based
on
children's
books
and
knowledge
-
she then
tells
an
anecdote
about
the
typesetter/printer
of the
book
15:27
"
Memory
" her
next
book
was a
collaboration
that
begins
with a
poem
created
from
ten
books
and
ten
words
from those
books
all
selected
at
random
-
the
political
sections
of the
book
were
written
by
others
-
there was also a
series
of
photographs
that were
included
in the
original
installation
of the
project
that were
accompanied
by
written
journals
-
written
in
July
1971
-
all
the
journals
were then
turned
into
reel-to-reel
tapes
and
it
was an
eight
hour
long
installation
to
hear/view
the
entire
project
-
then
mention
of
anecdote
about
how the
publisher
went
about
his
offer
for
publication
-
final
structure
of
book
was
shorter
with the
slides
and
text
and
additional
text
written
around
the
sides
of the
slides
22:48
"
Studying
Hunger
"
next
book
that
took
information
from
journals
and then
made
them into
lectures
-
combination
of
prose
and
poetry
-
mentions
Basho
,
Dante
and
William
Carlos
Williams
as
other
writers
who
use
the
prose/poetry
intermingling
form
26:44
"
Poetry
"
next
book
chronologically
,
Mayer
feels
it
is
the
most
boring
of her
books
-
structure
:
set
up
on
two
parts
,
Section
One
all
her
old
poems
and
Section
Two
the
poems
she
wrote
in the
two
weeks
prior
to
finishing
the
book
27:27
"
Euriditio
ex
memoria
"
Book
about
learning
and how to
deal
with
transitions
.
Mayer
then
refers
back
to "
Moving
" and how
it
was
about
dealing
with
commas
and how this
book
is
about
dealing
with
transition
and what to or not to
transition
from
29:31
"The
Golden
Book
of
Words
"
structure
focuses
on her
involvement
with
titles
and
works
and the
book
poems
is
kept
in
chronological
order
30:28
"
Midwinter
Day
"
one
long
poem
with
prose
parts
about
December
22
,
1978
written
in
almost
one
day
.
Set
up
in
six
sections
.
Mayer
comments
on the
process
she
used
to
keep
the
day
fresh
and the
ways
she
collected
information
38:16
"
Utopia
"
red
and
black
book
that
includes
pieces
by
other
writers
and
who's
intent
was
tongue
in
cheek
textbook
with an
index
39:56
Mayer
reads
from "
Utopia's
"
beginning
43:41
Mayer
reads
from "
Utopia's
"
index
with
interspersed
commentary
46:30
Mayer
talks
about
how
Utopia
itself
is
a
form
46:52-
tape
cuts
off
in
sentence
47:01
tape
cuts
back
to
Mayer
talking
about
her
last
books
"
Sonnets
" and that the
structure
is
around
seventy
sonnets
with a
lot
of them
coming
from
incident
reports
50:28
talks
about
one
of her
two
discursive
books
"
Handbook
for
Poetic
Forms
" that was
written
by
nineteen
people
. She
talks
about
how at the
end
there were a
total
of
around
ten
forms
that
no
one
wanted
to
write
about
and how she and the
editor
took
up
the
slack
.
51:43
second
discursive
book
"
Art
of
Science
Writing
" that she
collaborated
on with a
fiction
writer
and
playwrighter
that was
taught
to
science
students
53:22
Mayer
opens
it
up
for
questions
with
first
question
asking
her to
enumerate
the
ten
poetic
forms
no
one
wanted
to
write
about
53:55
Mayer
recalls
the
least
liked
ten
as
being
:
pastoral
,
quatrain
,
sestet
,
allegory
,
canzoni
,
teriterima
,
ottavarima
, and
epithalamium
55:53
next
question
about
"
Sonnets
" and how there
is
one
that
instructs
the
reader
to
turn
to
various
pages
based
upon
their
desire
to
love
or
die
-
Mayer
says
initially
the
pages
were
made
up
, but in the
book
she
did
use
intent
.
57:04
question
on
whether
her
structure
is
explained
in her
books
-
Mayer
responds
that
no
it
is
not and
it
would be
boring
if
it
was
58:56
request
for
Mayer
to
talk
about
"
Moving
" and how
it
became
formalized
into a
book
-
Mayer
responds
that the
overall
information
was
already
in
order
and
completed
, she
just
added
a
poem
at the
beginning
and
end
60:27
question
about
"
Story
"
being
her
first
published
book
-
how
did
she
do
it
and
does
she
recommend
it
?
Mayer
responds
that at the
time
she was
working
with
Vito
Acconci
on the
magazine
Zero
to
Nine
and that they
decided
to
publish
some
small
books
and they
made
400
copies
and then she
goes
into her
distribution
methods
at the
time
64:06
Mayer
reads
from "
Sonnets
"
67:06
question
on
new
forms
-
Mayer
comments
on how
forms
add
structure
and how
no
form
is
also
structure
and that
is
it
no
necessary
to
write
new
forms
, but she
enjoys
structure
as
intricate
architecture
73:16
final
student
comment
(hard
to
hear)
75:36
Mayer
just
started
writing
a
new
book
"
Journal
of
Small
Cures
"
about
the
relationships
people
have with
one
another
and
daily
life
and the
mixing
in of
sublime
notions
77:33
thank
you
and
clapping
77:43
tape
ends
Type of Event
workshop
Engineer's Notes
good good audio except for last student comment at very end of tape.
Date Recorded
1989-07-17
File Format
mp3
Performance Length
1:17:38
Rights Information
Copyright
release
given
to
Naropa
University
for the
purposes
of
preservation
,
maketing
and
educational
use
.
All
other
rights
reserved
to
individual
performers
.
Department
Writing
Original Format
audio cassette
Format Description
monounknown mono
Publisher
Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type
Sound
Language
eng
File Name
89P076.mp3
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