Desires Mothers to Please Others in Letters

A reissue of Bernadette Mayer's classic fugitive intergenre text.Co-published with SplitLevel TextsEndlessly inclusive, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, first published in 1994 and long out of print, evokes the complexity of real persons as it simultaneously reinvents multiple genres: epistle, prose poem, and memoir. Written between 1979 and 1980 while pregnant with her third ch...